If you're worried about people being able to find out where you are, now would be the time to update your privacy settings. It's not enough to keep your location to yourself; you also have to ensure your friends can't tag you when they check into Facebook Places.
To manage your Facebook Places privacy settings, click on your Facebook account in the upper right hand corner of your Facebook page and from the drop down menu choose privacy settings. There's a link at the bottom of the settings list to customize settings, click on that.
Facebook users under 18 still don't have the option of being seen by anyone outside of their existing network of friends, he added.
A spokesperson for the federal privacy commission
said it's too early to see how the new feature jibes with Canadian privacy laws.
“We'll monitor this closely and go from there,” said Anne-Marie Hayden in a telephone interview from Ottawa.
Sharon said Places is a reaction to what Facebook users are already doing. Users frequently tell their friends where they're going. Now, it's just quicker and broader reaching, he said.
If you don't want to share your location with anyone, click on custom and choose 'only me' from the drop down menu as shown above. Otherwise, your choices are: sharing your location with friends only, with friends and friends of friends, or with everyone. If you check the enable box below that, you'll be added to the list of people who are at the same location as you at the particular time you're there. Next go a little further down and check your settings under 'Friends can check me in to Places.' There are only two choices there: enable or disable. When you look at those settings, you'll also be able to see who among your friends has opted to share their location using Places.
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