San Jose Strip Clubs: Where are you? A rundown of Facebook’s Places
To prevent that, go to your privacy settings page. Then click “Edit your settings” under “Applications and Websites” in the lower left corner. Look for an “Edit Settings” box next to “Info accessible through your friends.” Click it, and uncheck the box next to “Places I check in to.”
8. One more thing on friends
Your friends are hopefully considerate, upstanding, sharp-as-a-tack Facebook citizens. They wouldn’t tag embarrassing photos of you without your permission — so that someone clicking through your profile could pull up images of that wild night with the lampshade on your head and your tie … well, never mind.
So it follows that they, hopefully, won’t check you in to a strip club when you both should be at church, just to be funny. And if they do, maybe it’s time to take out those pruning shears.