So first of all congratulations on enabling Facebook places to your facebook account. As you were able to enable it, it should be obvious then how to disable it. Well that would be true of course, if you had actively enabled it in the first place!

Actually, what happened was those crazy kids at facebook, thought this one up, then added in an enabled form to everyones account. With all the bad press facebook have been getting with privacy issues, it’s frankly beyond me why they would roll something out like this, which surely is going to add fuel to the fire. Kids huh…(I am sounding old these days).

What amazes me most though is that this will annoy more people than it had to. How many people, well lets suggest everyone who didn’t want to share this stuff in the first place. This could have annoyed precisely no one if, they had rolled this new app out, with great fanfare, which you could sign up to add to your account. That way the one’s that wanted it would be happy, and the one who didn’t would also be…happy. This isn’t rocket science is it?

As someone who’s life is entirely divided between my office and then chasing after progeny who’s combined ages are less than the fingers on one hand, (I have a full set…of fingers I mean), the last thing I want to remind everyone of is that my days are spent entirely at the office, somewhere between my computer & phone and coffee maker, period. My evenings are spent trying to encourage said progeny to eat something, before suggesting that sleep, at some point for them, would a good idea.

As a consequence the whole 4square app passed me by, it is mildly interesting to see where people are, which bar, what they had for lunch, but my days aren’t spent like that. Boo hoo.

So, with much fanfare, Facebook launched their places app, and for me the hype didn’t match the product. However, by automatically adding this feature to my facebook account, they basically added the 4square functionality to it, which I did’nt want.

So, here’s how to keep your boring life a private…

How to Disable Facebook Places

Sign into your account, oh that’s right you already are: choose Privacy Settings

This is what you find: Click on image. That’s right, you’re already added to Places I Check Into. Click Customize Settings

Find the Places I Check Into section, click Customize

Select Only Me, you could of course do the Hide This From but you’d have to keep adding new friends to it…

Not quite done yet, scroll down lower on the page and where it says Friends Can Check Me Into Places, and select Disabled (one can imagine how this could be abused!)

That should do it. In order for anyone to check you in anywhere you would have to approve the checking in before it was posted, but again, this whole thing should have been disabled unless you actually wanted it.

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