This video takes a look at Facebook Places and shows you how you can make some quick changes to your privacy settings so you can share your whereabouts only with the friends you want to, and not with friends of friends of friends, or perhaps your mom.

Facebook Places is a lot like Foursquare or Gawalla: it’s a location-based, checkin service that lets you tell your friends where you are and let’s you see where they are. It’s where online meets offline, and it really puts the flesh back in social.

So here’s how you can protect your privacy AND your friends’ and still have a lot of fun with this service.

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