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Grislo
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Okay, so I'd like to avoid being tagged in, say, pictures on Facebook for a little while.
But is that actually possible?
There's a setting that allows me to approve tags before they appear on my timeline, but even if I don't approve a tag, won't everyone else still see in their feed? Like, isn't the timeline a separate thing from what people see on their 'front page', or whatever FB calls it?
Or will that option completely prevent that?
If not, is there another way to remove people's ability to tag me?
EDIT: I guess the review tag option isn't even a general one, but only for people who tag my own content? Come on, Facebook. Best way to simulate no tags is to only allow myself to see tagged postings, I guess?
But is that actually possible?
There's a setting that allows me to approve tags before they appear on my timeline, but even if I don't approve a tag, won't everyone else still see in their feed? Like, isn't the timeline a separate thing from what people see on their 'front page', or whatever FB calls it?
Or will that option completely prevent that?
If not, is there another way to remove people's ability to tag me?
EDIT: I guess the review tag option isn't even a general one, but only for people who tag my own content? Come on, Facebook. Best way to simulate no tags is to only allow myself to see tagged postings, I guess?
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At this point it's probably easier to dodge being in the photos than it is to dodge the tags.
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https://www.facebook.com/help/www/140906109319589
And since that help doesn't actually match with what I see, when you're looking at a photo, you select the Options menu at the bottom and Report/Remove Tag, and then check "I want to untag myself" and then click Continue.
Daenris, yeah, it's not really a problem to remove them, if you want. But thanks.
I cannot recall where you find this setting with the new layout, but it definitely works - I think it's called a Timeline Review or something
the photo will still appear, but your tag won't until you approve it, and anyone subsequently trying to tag you in that same photo will again require your approval before it appears
I've set this option to 'only me' for now:
"When you’re tagged in a post, who do you want to add to the audience if they aren’t already in it?"
Which seems to be the best/only real option.
Let's say my friend Jamie tags me in a bunch of pictures.
Only Jamie's friends will be able to see that I've been tagged. Anyone else who goes to look at pictures of me (as long as they're not friends with Jamie) will not see those pictures..
I have no idea what the setting is called as my facebook is not in English.
This. Even if you can untag every photo of yourself, it's only a matter of time until facial recognition is good enough for people to search you in photos even when they're untagged. If there are photos of you that you don't want people to find, ask your friends to just remove them completely.
I don't know about the OP, but personally I'm not worried so much about a company face-scanning me over the internet as I am about, say, my mom insisting on posting baby pictures of me and tagging them. And I've tried talking to my mom, it doesn't work. Some issues with other friend and family tagging shitty pictures of me, and in the end I just wind up having to go behind everybody and untag myself, basically policing my profile. It's annoying, and I'd really prefer to just disable tagging altogether. But from what I can tell, the only solution is just not being on Facebook. Which isn't really a solution at all (because if I didn't want to be on Facebook at all, I...wouldn't be, and there'd be no issue).
Actually, not being on facebook isn't even a solution, because people can add tags with names of non-Facebook users. I'm not sure whether those are searchable at present by the end-users, but it's still data being stored if people really want to tag you.
What is your issue?
I think that's the issue? If it weren't a problem, he wouldn't have to be so vague about it on a public, Google-searchable forum.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!