This morning I went to disable the settings related to Facebook’s Places.  What is places?

There was a caption that Facebook does not disclose your location without your knowledge; however, it was interesting to me that all of the settings for Places were automatically enabled on my Account.  So if I was a casual user, or didn’t keep track of the upgrades in technology, I could be exposed and not know it.

While I can understand from a youthful perspective why this would be attractive, personally, I still want to be in total control of who I allow to know to my whereabouts at all times.  However, at the same time that I feel this would be dangerous functionality to put into the hands of children/teens, I wondered if it could possible be a way to find them in the event that something happens to them.  The iphone apps allow for you to be logged into facebook – and as I do not have children (although many nieces and nephews) i would be curious as to feedback from a parental perspective.

Does this make you nervous?  Check your children’s settings.  As usual, Facebook’s unintuitive interface makes it that you have to go to several areas to disable this feature:

First go to Account > Then “Settings” > Notifications:

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