Facebook's mobile app constantly tracks and records your location unless you turn it off mode.
The tracking and recording service of your phone is also accessible to you. To see the trail you leave during the day, go to facebook.com/location_history/view and you will see a list of all the places you have been to, placed on a map, like the photo below.
Of course you know what you are doing and what data you are letting go on the internet, but there is a good chance you have not realized how much you are sharing your location history, because almost no one deals with it from the first moment. Reading these maps is a good reminder of how carefully you monitor.
It might also be a good incentive to turn off location sharing altogether. You can do it from your mobile device by going to “Settings” and then to the “Permissions” you give to your applications, from there to “Location” and from there disable the Facebook application from having access at your location. The exact path inside your phone's menu depends on the operating system (Android, iOS, Microsoft, MIUI) and the version you're running. The control in which state you have set the Location can also be done through your desktop computer, from the location facebook.com/settings?tab=location
In accounts with the site disabled, if you click on your site history you will see the following message, which swears that if you enable your history then it will be private and secure:
Alternatively and even better, you can uninstall the Facebook app and just use the mobile site. It's basically the same browsing, but without giving Facebook access to things like your phone's location services. It also reduces alerts, which some of you might find annoying.
Of course Facebook is not the only company that follows you. Google Maps also tracks your every move and you can see your entire history here. If you want Google to stop tracking you (at least legally) go here and turn off "Location History".
The apactivation of the history will not prevent Google (for those who have an Androiod device) to be able to finds your mark at any time, in case you lost your cell phone or it was stolen (provided it is open and connected).
