You may notice that the "Include me in "People Here Now" after I check in" box is sent to enabled as default. This is fine by me as that's the whole point of location based services, but the tin-foil hat brigade may want to turn this off :)
BTW notice how the Facebook Places logo (top of page) is a 4 in a square? Lol.
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Cheers for the heads up!
Good man. Excellent spot!
I was wondering what this had to do with Affiliate Marketing and then worked it out.. so great tip, going to save a lot of red faces among guys with wife’s and girlfriends who have them on a short lead… Kieron and Clarke have checked in to a Strip Club with half the Affiliates attending this conference
My setting is now disabled!
Lol Clarke, yes I was thinking ahead to the Las Vegas trip planned in January
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Thanks Kieron – useful bit of information to know! Good work on spotting the little reference to four square in the logo too… Wonder if it was intentional?!
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Wow, that’s gotta be rough for FourSquare’s facebook just totally took their idea, and now as a result unless FourSquare steps it up, it’s likely FourSquare will suffer as a result.
Till then,
Jean
These apps are brilliant for telling people where you are – but more importantly where you are NOT. You are NOT at home… so it’s potentially empty and ripe for a burglar!
Great post , i didn`t know this
I just wonder how many more of these applications and websites can come out that allow people to tell what they are doing, where they are going etc. before users just stop using them due to there being so many options. Usually when a market becomes over saturated like this, it suffers and people just get fed up with so many different applications being pushed on them.
Thanks for this well crafted piece of writing about such an important issue facing us.
Honestly this should be called Facebook stalker. I don;t think these kind of things should be allowed. And we wonder why our privacy is no longer.
That’s good to know Kieron, I had assumed since I had set most of my settings to private that it would default tis one to that as well! I guess I need to be more aware now of any new changes on facebook and stay on top of my privacy settings.
Till then,
Jean
Thanks for the tips, mate. It’s hard to stay on top of Facebook these days, isn’t it? First it was the privacy settings and now this. But that’s progress I guess.
Excellent post. One day there will need to be a class on Facebook’s privacy settings.
Bit late finding this one out as I don’t use FB much, but I have just changed my settings so thanks for the handy tip.
Thanks for raising this.. It smacks of stalker-ness to me! I’m going to disable this crazy facebook feature today!
I think it is so creepy how people want to know and let people know where they are all the time. talk about a stalker program.
It is a weird idea that my friends would be able to check me in. I am sure some out there will find it useful though. I am thankful you have shared how to turn this off.
- Robert
This will certainly stop your stalkers.