>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:36:10 -0500, Vince M Hudd wrote
(in article ):

> Amy Guskin  wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:09:38 -0500, Kathryn Huxtable wrote
>> (in article ):
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> I may have been thinking of the setting that allows friend to add you to
>>> "places". I have that disabled.<<
>  
>> Augh, they can do that, too?!
> 
> Blimey, yes - that's been there for a while. I disallowed it via my settings
> as soon as they appeared, which was before it was even active on my side of
> the puddle.
> 
> 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:
> 
> http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Disable_Facebook_Places <<

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.

Amy
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