cooky560 Veteran Posted September 24, 2012 Veteran Share Posted September 24, 2012 Basically I don't want people knowing where I am all the time, but some of my friends who tag me photos add the location (perhaps automagically) and I'm tired of either reviewing or manually removing the location each time. Now before timeline it was really easy to control who could add your location from this screen: Now however since I've been forcibly upgraded to Timeline most of the privacy settings have gone, it now looks like this: None of these buttons have any controls for restricting who can post my location, does anyone know of a fix for this short of restricting everything on my timeline? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooky560 Veteran Posted September 25, 2012 Author Veteran Share Posted September 25, 2012 203 views and no answers, does anyone know the answer to this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Facebook & Privacy ? :laugh: oliver182 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooky560 Veteran Posted September 26, 2012 Author Veteran Share Posted September 26, 2012 Yes I'm terrible for expecting the same level of privacy as I had before timeline :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Yes I'm terrible for expecting the same level of privacy as I had before timeline :rolleyes: I rarely visit FB but found the new timeline to be a PITA, discovered this FF addon, not sure if it will help with your problem but puts FB back to how it was before timeline http://www.socialreviver.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooky560 Veteran Posted September 26, 2012 Author Veteran Share Posted September 26, 2012 I've seen that, while it changes timeline for me, it doesn't affect the site at all and so won't improve privacy settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted September 26, 2012 Veteran Share Posted September 26, 2012 The newer privacy settings layout started rolling out before Timeline was even announced, let alone before it was rolled out to people, so you should have received it sometime in either August or September last year, unless it perhaps just took longer to roll out to you (although this feature should have been a quick rollout); either way, this newer privacy settings layout is not related to the release of Timeline. Facebook removed the ability to control who can tag you in their posts that contain locations at the same time they started to allow locations to be added to any post and at the same time they implemented the option of reviewing tags. The only thing you can now do in this regard is enable the option labelled 'Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline' under the Timeline & Tagging section. This, however, will only stop the post from showing on your Timeline and in your friends' News Feeds/Tickers; friends of the person who tags you will still see you tagged in that friend's post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Tagging should have been opt-in and not opt out... it's annoying.... this is a horrible experience I had; after I had a miscarriage one of my "friends" tagged me in over 20 baby pictures.... that made me sick. I was furious. It hurt me very badly and I am rarely ever hurt. I untagged, reported, and blocked the bitch. I am so sick of that crap FB pulls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooky560 Veteran Posted September 29, 2012 Author Veteran Share Posted September 29, 2012 So I guess I'm going to have to block my entire timeline from people, oh dear, this is pretty bad Facebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anibal P Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 So I guess I'm going to have to block my entire timeline from people, oh dear, this is pretty bad Facebook. It's not FBs fault you have "friends" that refuse to respect your wishes when it comes to your location and tagging, I rarely use FB and my few friends and family know I'll drop em in a heartbeat if they tag me in photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooky560 Veteran Posted September 30, 2012 Author Veteran Share Posted September 30, 2012 No but it is their fault that the option to prevent them has gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmeunit Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 If you want privacy, don't use Facebook. Pretty simple. It is made to show interactions between people and share information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Xinok Subscriber² Posted September 30, 2012 Subscriber² Share Posted September 30, 2012 Delete your Facebook account!!! Don't expect anything less from them. I had to re-register just to find a friend whose phone number was out of service. They somehow identified me, and under "Add people you know", it's showing me people I actually know. I haven't used Facebook in almost two years, yet they still have all this info stored about me. It's been proven, they NEVER delete anything about you. Due to a law passed in another country (France, maybe?), a law student requested all of the information that Facebook had about him. Some of the details were kept hidden from him due to "trade secrets", but the information they did reveal was quite disturbing. EVERYTHING, going years back, logging information about you that you never even considered they might. Worse yet, they never delete any post or private message, but simply "flag" them as "deleted". While you can't see it anymore, it's still stored on their servers... forever... So, again, Delete your Facebook account!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoligy Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Stop people from tagging you in photo's that's the only solution as there is no privacy in facebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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