Instructions on how to hide your location on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat

Your online networking posts could put you at danger. 

While we don't know whether online networking assumed a part in Kim Kardahsian West being held up at gunpoint in a Paris hotel, some have said that her continuous posts in the hours prior to the robbery could have helped inform the people behind the attack.

While it's still speculation now, it serves as a decent update for everybody — big name or not — to be aware of what they're sharing on online networking. Indeed. Even the smallest updates can give criminals clues to your location.

In the event that you would prefer not to stop posting on online networking, there are steps you can take to ensure yourself. This is what you have to know about the social accounts you may as of now have. 

Facebook and Twitter 

On the off chance that you shared your location on your last update, both Facebook and Twitter will consequently utilize your location on your next post. Note that both applications will default to your present city, instead of a particular venue. Neither one of the wills show much else particular than the name of the city or a generic map view of the city. 

On the off chance that you need to connect a particular spot to a Facebook update, you'll have to add a check-in to your update. In like manner, with Twitter, you can include a Foursquare venue. 

In both cases, this will make your post searchable by area (if the post was shared freely), so you might need to abstain from sharing a careful area until after you clear out. Moreover, Twitter has an "offer exact area" choice that is presumably best kept away from much of the time.

Other than removing the general location label itself, the best thing you can do is abstain from posting content that makes it simple to recognize your precise location — in any event until after you have cleared out. In the event that it's a substantial open occasion, similar to a show, you may choose it's alright to share where you are. (For Kardashian's situation, for instance, individuals have brought up that while her posts aren't geotagged, the posts themselves made it simple to think about where she was remaining.) 

As usual, in case you're not certain about something, it's most likely best to fail in favor of being wary. Also, don't be hesitant to erase a post on the off chance that you have apprehensions.

Snapchat 

While Snapchat doesn't permit you to tag tag your exact location in the same way other social networks like Facebook and Instagram do, your snaps can at present give away significantly more than you understand. 

Geofilters, for instance, can without much of a stretch distinguish a venue, neighborhood or particular occasion. This could be especially risky when you share to your Story, as these snaps are time stamped, making it less demanding to follow your whereabouts.

One route around them — something the Kardashian faction is obviously officially mindful of — is to post to Snapchat in quite mode as it were. This is a workaround that permits you to "save" posts, since the application doesn't really have a save feature. Later, you can include the photographs once you've left flight mode by tapping "retry" on the failed posts. 

Also, with the new memories update, you can share photographs to your Story that are saved in your Camera Roll. What's more, photographs that are under 24 hours old will show up as they regularly would, without the white border that shows up when you share more older photographs. 

Instagram 

While Instagram doesn't tag your photographs' location by default, there's still a conventional chance you have unwittingly shared an area you didn't intend to sooner or later. 

A past past of Instagram permitted photographs to be geotagged with your location when you uploaded them, regardless of the possibility that you didn't physically include a particular location. This implies you could have incidentally labeled the location of your home or working environment, and had it freely viewable, without acknowledging it.

To check, investigate your Photo map (tab with the location pin on your profile) and zoom into see the location of your photos, giving careful consideration to the area close where you live and work. 

In the event that you need to delete a tag, select "edit" in the upper right corner of the application and after that select the photo to remove the geotag and tap "done" to save. 

The application has since made maps just available to the account owner. Instagram is additionally during the time spent removing the Photo Map feature, so this issue ought to settle itself in the long run. In any case, it's not an awful thought to look at it before then, in the event that something goes wrong.