How to Turn Off Facebook Location

Facebook is at it once more, releasing yet an additional attribute that I never ever had the chance to pleasantly pull out of: area sharing.

When Facebook made a decision to take out efforts from its temporary check-in solution, Places, it promptly carried out a much more passive location-sharing function that does not also have a name. It's just there. And also it's weird.

Now, whenever you compose a message on a mobile phone or computer, you'll see a light-gray area description in the lower left of the condition box.

Facebook sneakily gets your location via GPS or Wi-Fi router, and also connects it to your post, so your good friends can delight in a more extensive tracking experience.

Do you remember choosing in to that? Me neither.

Actually, if you dig via your personal privacy and account setups, the choice to turn off location-sharing isn't available. Nevertheless, it's quite very easy to transform it off. Here's exactly how:

- Given that the area is shown in light grey, it's really simple to miss. Constantly examine the lower left of the condition box to see if a place is connected.

- If you're on the Web, simply float the arrow over the location and click the "X." Your place will no more be attached, even to future conditions. If you later on transform your mind, simply click the place pen to manually enter your location, yet beware: it will certainly be attached again for all future updates (unless you turn it off again).

-In the Facebook mobile application, touch the area to remove it. On the apple iphone, you can turn off area services for Facebook totally by going to Setups > Location Services, as well as transforming it off for Facebook.

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