On Dec 23, 12:28 am, Amy Guskin wrote:
> >> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:36:10 -0500, Vince M Hudd wrote
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> > Amy Guskin wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:09:38 -0500, Kathryn Huxtable wrote
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> >>> I may have been thinking of the setting that allows friend to add you to
> >>> "places". I have that disabled.<<
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> >> Augh, they can do that, too?!
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> > Blimey, yes - that's been there for a while. I disallowed it via my
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> > as soon as they appeared, which was before it was even active on my side of
> > the puddle.
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> > IIRC, to fully disable it you have to change three settings. A quick google
> > for 'disable facebook places' brings up a lot of results. This is the first
> > on my screen:
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> >http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Disable_Facebook_Places<<
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> Interestingly, they really, really don't want you to disable your friends
> from being able to check you into places now. The instructions said I'd find
> a pulldown right next to that feature allowing me to disable it. Not so
> anymore. Now you get an "edit settings" button next to it. When you click
> on that button, you get the pulldown menu. So you click "disable," you "save
> settings," and go back out to the previous level of privacy settings and...it
> still only says "edit settings" next to that item, nothing to show that
> you've changed/disabled it. Why so cagey, I wonder? A simple pulldown at
> the item itself was good enough for other privacy preference items.
This reminds me of something I read recently...
Why wasn't Julian Assange Time's Man of the Year?
Because he didn't breach enough people's privacy.
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