Photos and tagging
With more than 4 billion photos posted on Facebook each month, photosharing
is one of the most popular activities on the site, and tagging each
other in photos is how users share photos on the site. Some teens rush home
from school to find out how many photos they've been tagged in (Facebook
says tagging is what "brings photos to life").
Tagging can be a good thing, because it helps you find pictures of yourself and
others you care about, but there may be times when you want to “untag”
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yourself from a photo to remove it from your profile and make it a bit harder
to find. That can help you dissociate yourself from the photo, but it will not
actually remove the photo from someone else’s profile.
Only Friends can tag each other, and Facebook notifies users when they've
been tagged. If they untag themselves from the photo, it will no longer be on
their profile and may be harder to find via search, but untagging does not
remove the photo from Facebook or the Web. Only the person who posted the
photo can fully remove it, so if you want a photo removed, you'll need to ask
the person to take it down. This illustrates why safety and reputation
management is a shared experience on the social Web.
Safety and Reputation Point: In most cases photo-sharing and tagging
are fine, but sometimes photos are used to embarrass, harass or cyberbully
users. Tagging people in embarrassing photos can hurt their reputations
and relationships with others. Disrespectful or unkind use of others' photos
can be reciprocated, so it's good to remind your children to be respectful of
others when they post photos – for their own and others' safety and
reputation protection.
To untag a photo
1. Click on Profile and then Photos.
2. Navigate to the Photo you wish to untag (the most recent are on top).
3. Click on the photo and check click on Remove tag next to your name.
To limit who can tag you
1. Go to your Privacy Settings page and select Photos and videos I’m
tagged in in the Things Others Share section.
2. Change the setting to Friends Only or, to completely remove the ability
for others to tag you, go to Customize and select Only Me.
As Facebook is making it increasingly easy to tag people, users need to be
increasingly mindful of how and who they tag when they are being tagged
themselves.
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Reputation and Privacy Point: Untagging a photo or preventing people
from tagging you in photos doesn’t remove pictures of you or prevent
people from posting them. Anyone can still post any picture they want. It’s
also possible for people to include your name in a photo caption or a
comment on a photo.
With more than 4 billion photos posted on Facebook each month, photosharing
is one of the most popular activities on the site, and tagging each
other in photos is how users share photos on the site. Some teens rush home
from school to find out how many photos they've been tagged in (Facebook
says tagging is what "brings photos to life").
Tagging can be a good thing, because it helps you find pictures of yourself and
others you care about, but there may be times when you want to “untag”
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yourself from a photo to remove it from your profile and make it a bit harder
to find. That can help you dissociate yourself from the photo, but it will not
actually remove the photo from someone else’s profile.
Only Friends can tag each other, and Facebook notifies users when they've
been tagged. If they untag themselves from the photo, it will no longer be on
their profile and may be harder to find via search, but untagging does not
remove the photo from Facebook or the Web. Only the person who posted the
photo can fully remove it, so if you want a photo removed, you'll need to ask
the person to take it down. This illustrates why safety and reputation
management is a shared experience on the social Web.
Safety and Reputation Point: In most cases photo-sharing and tagging
are fine, but sometimes photos are used to embarrass, harass or cyberbully
users. Tagging people in embarrassing photos can hurt their reputations
and relationships with others. Disrespectful or unkind use of others' photos
can be reciprocated, so it's good to remind your children to be respectful of
others when they post photos – for their own and others' safety and
reputation protection.
To untag a photo
1. Click on Profile and then Photos.
2. Navigate to the Photo you wish to untag (the most recent are on top).
3. Click on the photo and check click on Remove tag next to your name.
To limit who can tag you
1. Go to your Privacy Settings page and select Photos and videos I’m
tagged in in the Things Others Share section.
2. Change the setting to Friends Only or, to completely remove the ability
for others to tag you, go to Customize and select Only Me.
As Facebook is making it increasingly easy to tag people, users need to be
increasingly mindful of how and who they tag when they are being tagged
themselves.
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Reputation and Privacy Point: Untagging a photo or preventing people
from tagging you in photos doesn’t remove pictures of you or prevent
people from posting them. Anyone can still post any picture they want. It’s
also possible for people to include your name in a photo caption or a
comment on a photo.
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