Facebook Places shows where you’ve been in the world, right? Well, no, it doesn’t. Facebook Places shows your friends both the places you’ve been AND the places where your friends have been. How’s that? Let’s say you head to Timbuktu and take a photo of your hotel room. Just for fun, you tag your friend Raoul in that photo. Guess what? The next time Raoul checks his Places map, it will show that he’s been in Timbuktu. Fun huh?
If your Places map shows places that you’ve never been in your life, here’s how to get rid of them. Some of you may want to leave them, which is fine, but for the others, here’s how you do it.
1. Head to your Places.
2. Here’s one of our maps:
3. Looks like there are a couple of photos from Malaysia that we need to untag. Click on the place in question, something like this comes up:
4. Two photos, both with tags. You don’t have to navigate all the way to the photo, just click on the one that you want to untag yourself from (is that good English or what?) Once the photo pops up, click on the word Options:
5. You don’t want to report the photo, you just want to untag yourself. Here’s how that looks:
6. Done! Let’s check the map again to see if it worker. Don’t forget to refresh the page before you check:
7. This method will remove the places where you’ve been tagged by your friends. If you have added Location to some of your photos or for whole photo albums, those will all show on your map. If you’ve told Facebook that you’ve worked at a brand name company, such as Maximum PC for us, that will show also. You’ll have to remove the Location from your photos and/or delete the work or school history to get rid of those places. Once you know where these ‘places’ come from, you’ll find it much easier to erase them. Good luck! Let us know if you have problems.
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for the dummies of this read, where did you find “places”? on what page where? I don’t have it on the left of my wall page nor under settings and privacy… so help me out?
“What is this ‘Places’ of which you speak?” Thanks for letting us know that you don’t have places on your Facebook. We checked and two profiles had it, one didn’t. We set out to add it and we’ll do a complete post on this on Monday. For now, try this: Go to your Timeline and click on Update Info. Click on the Edit icon and choose ‘Edit Sections’. Once you do that, a whole list of sections will pop up. Places will be there but it will be unchecked. Check the ones you want to add and then click Save down at the bottom. Now, go back to your Timeline and click on the word More. Places will now be in the list and you can click it and see where your photo tags are on the map.
There are no dummies, OK? It might be us and how we write when we assume everyone sees what we see, it might be a language problem, there are many explanations. Above all, we love it when people comment and let us know what’s working for them and what isn’t. It never occurred to us that some people might not have ‘Places’ and we’re happy that you let us know. We’re the dummies! If our solution doesn’t work, let us know.
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It was easy enough to figure out how to get the “more” button, but honestly when I got the more button, “Places” will not click. I know that facebook is rolling out new timeline and that may be why it isn’t working because I also see people commenting a lot about their email and chat not working. I must be stuck in some alternate reality “Place” right now because my “Places” is inactive since I added it rather than waiting for facebook to do it…….. thanks for your reply!
Where are you? Places only works in some countries, maybe it doesn’t work in yours. We can’t find a current list but back when Places was initiated, some countries couldn’t use it. Don’t tell us where you are, we didn’t mean that, just that this might be the problem. You’re right. Facebook is in a bit of a muddle now. Maybe you can try a different browser or, better yet, post anything but tell Facebook where you are. If you look on your post menu, there is a location setting, second from the left. Click it, make up a location and see if that opens things up. We’re assuming that you have at least one location in a photo or tag somewhere, right? Anyway, we hope it works out for you soon.