Facebook’s New Toy
Recently Facebook added a new feature called “Places”. Its’ similar in principal to FourSquare and allows users to post their location, so that their friends can know where you are. In the past, I’ve used FourSquare very judiciously. For example, I don’t post my location when I’m on travel without my family, I don’t share when I’m in a private meeting, etc… Essentially, I want to be social, but not at the expense of it being a safety risk.
Here is Facebook’s introductory video on “Places” -
How to Set Your Facebook Privacy Settings to secure “Places”
Awhile back I did a video tutorial on how to set your security settings on Facebook. Whereas I think ‘Places” can be fun, I think that Facebook jumped the shark when they added this feature and allowed other Facebook friends to update your location. There are a number of reasons why I think this is a bad feature. As a professional who has my clients as friends on Facebook, I don’t want people to know where I am socially. I certainly don’t want friends updating my location, when I may not really be at a given location. For these reasons and many more, I’ve turned off the ability for others to set my location.
Here are the steps to updating your security settings to limit who can update your location, and who can see your updates.
1. Login to Facebook and go to “Account” and then click on “Privacy Settings”
2. Click on “Customized Settings”
3. Disable “Friends can check me in to Places”
4. Based on your Group Settings, choose who can and cannot see your personal updates to “Places”.
I think that “Places” can be a fun way to share in the future, so long as we all use a little commonsense in what we update. If you’re sensitive to people knowing where you are and what you’re doing, make sure you’ve updated your settings.
About Matthew Rathbun
Matthew is the Vice President of Coldwell Banker Elite and is dedicated to Agent Development and Innovation. Matthew is a lover of God, Life and Mac , father of 3 great girls and husband to 1 awesome wife.
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