How to Disable Facebook Places Permanently
Recently Facebook introduced a “Places” feature which allows you to share your location with your friends whenever you send a status update, upload images, comment or do other activity on your Facebook profile.
If you want to permanently hide Facebook places or don’t want to share it with your friends, follow these simple steps:
How to Remove or Disable Facebook Places Completely
1. Log into your Facebook account and go to Accounts > Privacy settings.
2. Click “Customize settings” placed under “Sharing on Facebook” section
Disable Places feature from Facebook
3. On the next page you will find “Things I share” section. Find the setting that says “Places I check in”, click the drop down menu and select “Customize”
Remove or Hide Facebook Places
4. This will open up a small pop up window where you can choose whether you want to completely hide your location on Facebook or want them to be visible to a selected group of friends. If you want to permanently remove or hide the places feature, select “only Me” as the option.
Hide facebook location and places
If you want to show your location on Facebook to selected friends, type the name of the friends or choose the group in the shown text box.
Also read:
1. How to stop Facebook photo tagging
2. How to hide birthday information on Facebook
3. How to share files with Facebook friends
This method stops sharing of places info…but have you any idea of how to stop fb trying to logs one’s every move? It is very kind of them to share where I am with myself, but I’m generally a step ahead of them. Even though all relevant sharing is switched off/disabled for my account, on the iphone fb app I get a pop up every time I go to facebook…trying to get me to turn location settings on (which are generally off for all kinds of reasons, battery life being one). Have you any magic solutions?