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In this week’s 4MR podcast I look at the recently launched Facebook Places location feature. While the social network touts it as a great way to tell your friends where you are in the physical world, others worry about the privacy implications. In fact, the most popular stories on the subject are telling people how to turn it off. I talked with Gawker staff writer Adrian Chen about his take on how Facebook could have made it easier to turn Places off.
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Background music is “What the World Needs” by the The Ukelele Hipster Kings via PodSafe Music Network.
Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:
Who, What, When, and Now…Where at the Facebook blog
The First Thing You Should Do With Facebook Places – Don’t Let Other People Tag You at Gawker
Facebook Places Privacy Controls Get EFF Approval at eWeek
Why I’m Not Using Facebook Places at Jolie O’Dell’s blog
How to Disable Facebook Places at Huffington Post
How To Disable Facebook Places at ReadWriteWeb
Facebook Adds Location Check-Ins Through Foursquare, Gowalla, and Yelp at LifeHacker
How to Disable Facebook Places at LifeHacker
Facebook gets its hands on check-in startup Hot Potato at SocialBeat
Also, be sure to vote in our poll about what you think about Facebook Places:
Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.
4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.
