Facebook Places adds geolocation to Facebook, allowing you to share where you are, what you’re doing, and who you’re with. It differentiates itself from Foursquare or Gowalla, with an interesting additional feature: it allows you to check your friends in with you. This is a cool feature but it is certainly open to abuse; your friends could check you in somewhere embarrassing as a practical joke. Depending on who’s watching, you may find it causing problems for you.
Here’s how to prevent other people from checking you in on Facebook Places:
- Click on Privacy Settings
- Click Customize Settings
- Under Things Others Share, disable Friends can check me in to Places
That’s it. I’d like to see the ability to select certain people or friend lists which are allowed to check you in (or filter out people and lists which are not) but for now it’s an all-or-nothing setting. I’ll update this post if the options around this feature become more robust in the future.
Thanks, was really not liking having my friends check me in at bars on Facebook, but every time it would ask, I would say no, but it wouldn’t register, but it appears to work now under my privacy settings. Appreciate it! 🙂
Thanks a lot! I couldn’t figure this out to save my life.