How to Turn Off Facebook Location

Facebook is at it once again, releasing yet one more attribute that I never had the possibility to politely opt out of: area sharing.

When Facebook chose to take out efforts from its temporary check-in service, Places, it quickly executed a more passive location-sharing feature that doesn't even have a name. It's simply there. And also it's scary.

Now, every time you make up an article on a mobile phone or home computer, you'll see a light-gray location summary in the lower left of the standing box.

Facebook sneakily gets your location using GPS or Wi-Fi router, and also attaches it to your blog post, so your close friends can delight in a much more thorough tracking experience.

Do you keep in mind choosing in to that? Me neither.

As a matter of fact, if you dig via your personal privacy and also account setups, the option to switch off location-sharing isn't readily available. However, it's pretty simple to turn it off. Here's just how:

- Because the area is received light grey, it's really easy to miss. Constantly examine the lower left of the standing box to see if a place is connected.

- If you get on the Internet, merely hover the arrow over the place as well as click the "X." Your place will certainly no longer be connected, even to future statuses. If you later on transform your mind, simply click the place marker to by hand enter your place, but beware: it will certainly be connected once again for all future updates (unless you turn it off once more).

-In the Facebook mobile application, touch the location to remove it. On the iPhone, you can turn off location services for Facebook totally by going to Setups > Place Services, as well as turning it off for Facebook.

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