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My desktop insists that I live in Eugene-I do not! How do I correct that?

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My home location is Medford, OR. Everything that comes up on Facebook, etc. shows my home location as Eugene, OR. How do I correct this information?

My home location is Medford, OR. Everything that comes up on Facebook, etc. shows my home location as Eugene, OR. How do I correct this information?

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Check you computers settings. Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region After, check the settings on Face Book and other web sites.

Modified by FredMcD

Websites typically "geolocate" their users based on the location of their internet service provider.

You can opt in to providing more information, but actually, since desktop computers do not have GPS, and often do not have wi-fi running (Google tracks of the locations of wi-fi routers), I don't know how that works.

Here is some more information on geolocation in Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/geolocation/