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Facebook is abandoning its Places feature after just one year since it launched the function – at the same time, location settings within the social network are being ramped up. The company buried the news yesterday that Places would be "going away" in a blog post announcing Facebook's latest "privacy" tweaks. "In the same …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Embiggens?

    Perfectly cromulant word.

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    1. Guido Esperanto
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      i like to singa about the moona and the juna and the springa...

      distinct smell of fullox if you ask me.

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  2. Code Monkey
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    Thanks for the warning

    In other news, I read FB will now ask you to confirm your being tagged in photos. Which is nice.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    "handles its social graph"

    Say what now?

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  4. Paul RND*1000

    So once again

    We'll be checking our privacy settings to see what they're trying to sneak past. Thanks for the heads up!

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