Warning To All Facebook Users

8/25/2010 | Me

[NoGrayZone]

***ATTENTION*** Facebook launched Facebook Places yesterday. Anyone can find out where you are located when you are on Facebook via GLOBAL POSITIONING APPLICATION! To disable this feature:

Go to account

Account Settings

Notifications - scroll down to PLACES

UNCHECK 2 boxes (Places,Tags me at a Place ...&...Comments on my visits to Places) ......and SAVE CHANGES.

Please COPY to your status and pass it on.

Info below added by Mod per original poster's request:

notifications alone wont change anything, you need to disable the app

Facebook GLOBAL POSITIONING APPLICATION! To disable feature GO TO ACCOUNT
Private Settings
Scroll down to Applications& Website
click Edit your settings
Info accesible through your friends
click Edit Settings
UNCHECK Places I check in to
SAVE CHANGES

14 posted on 08/25/2010 9:46:05 AM PDT by boxerblues

[NoGrayZone]

Heads up for all FB users out there.

[cranked]

Closed out my account a few months back.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[taxcontrol]

To all Freepers:

Folks, social applications like Twitter and Facebook are HUGE security risks. Particularly with identity theft and can even lead to exploitation of children. I am a security professional and have worked in the field for over 20 years. I highly recommend that if you have such accounts that you close them, delete any and all information on your pages and notify the application owner that you wish the account to be removed and DELETED from all caches and records for security reasons.

[basil]

Never have trusted FB—never have been there.

Thanks for the info, though—I’ll pass it on.

[A CA Guy]

Who would ever put a real picture or information on the internet?
You'd have to have a few marbles loose IMO to do that.

[defconw]

Thanks, FRiend. Did not know about this.

[Nervous Tick]

[NoGrayZone]

I LOVE my FB. I have “met” many a fellow conservative’s and it’s also another wealth of information.

Anytime ANY of us log into or become members of ANYTHING on the internet, we open ourselves up.

My advise....DON’T input your real info.

[NoGrayZone]

Thanks!!! =)

[Big Horn]

spending time on the net is a risk.

[BelegStrongbow]

Well, I was able to disable the function, so maybe it’ll be okay.

[NoGrayZone]

I don’t have my real info on FB; however, I do have pics on there.

You can maintain your account security with settings. Only friends on my list can see my pics.

[boxerblues]

notifications alone wont change anything, you need to disable the app

Facebook GLOBAL POSITIONING APPLICATION! To disable feature GO TO ACCOUNT
Private Settings
Scroll down to Applications& Website
click Edit your settings
Info accesible through your friends
click Edit Settings
UNCHECK Places I check in to
SAVE CHANGES

[DJ MacWoW]

I don’t see “Account Settings”. Only “Account Security” and it’s only about notifications.

[teenyelliott]

Won’t that just stop notifications?

[NoGrayZone]

No problem. Neither did I until this morning when I received 2 posts regarding this.

Unchecked those boxes immediately!

[Jack of all Trades]

Your changes will just stop FB from sending you an email whenever someone tags you in a photo. They won’t stop the tagging. I would say that if this bothers you, then go and remove tags as they are made, or don’t post photos on the internet.

[NoGrayZone]

At the top right hand side there is Account. Click on that and you will see a menu, which is where you find account settings.

[MissTed]

Thanks, just un-clicked them. :)