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You can now adjust your Facebook Places privacy settings. Which means you have the ability to check in the places and share you updates with either your friends everyone of just a select few. You also have the ability to allow others to tag you in Facebook places check in's or not allow them to do so. This is really important and means you need to do so immediately if you do not want to be bothered by some unwanted check-in later. How to adjust your Facebook Places privacy settings. 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on Account 3. Click on Privacy settings 4. Click on Customize Settings 5.  Click the "Friends Only" drop down icon to set your privacy to who can view your Facebokk Places check in updated. You can select everyone, friends of friends, friends only or customize. If you select 'Customize' you have further options to select, as seen in the image below. Here you can choose to make you check in status updates to specific people or only me. You also have the opt...

Facebook places currently available in the US, allows users to tag other without their prior express permission. How and why is this a problem and what impact does this really have. Consider this scenario for a moment, you have invited all your friends out for dinner and innocently tag everybody at that diner in a Facebook Places update and share with all your friends on Facebook. Innocent enough, imagine the various impacts it might have. How many people have made excuses to be there for the dinner; maybe a friend has left work early, telling his boss there is an emergency. His Boss could be his friend on Facebook - result fried. Each person sitting on that dinner table might have made some excuse to have made time to be there; telling their partners and co-workers half-truths to make themselves available. So now everyone knows where they really are based on an update from a friend. So what is wrong with Facebook places. This is just one broad case scenario, there are definitely 1000s...