When you are tagged in a photo, the tag not only reveals the name of a person in the photo, but also the link to the Facebook profile. If the tag is well done and placed on the face, anyone with access to the photo can know who that person is and learn more.
This may be fun, but it also raises privacy concerns.
This article provides an overview of how to "tag" and how you can control the tags to protect your privacy on Facebook .
Whenever you are tagged in a friend's photograph, you receive a report and the friend's photo also appears in your personal album.
The tag is therefore a nice way to keep your photos organized even if they have been taken by other friends.
So today, to exchange photos, you don't even need to send them, just upload them to Facebook and write the names of the people involved.
An important thing to know is that you can tag anyone's photos and vice versa .
For example, you can put the label on the face of people who are in a photo or add a comment or even mark the place where the photo was taken (see also how to create the geographical map of Facebook photos with personal places).
You can add tags or labels both on your own photos and on those of others .
To add a tag, open the photo, click on the button at the bottom and then on a point of the image to write the label.
Facebook will display the list of friends helping the recognition.
In the end, press Enter and see that the name has been added.
When you tag people who are not friends (and vice versa), they will be asked to approve the tag.
If you tag a person who is not present on Facebook, the label is added the same even if it is not clickable because it is not associated with a profile.
Friends listed on the photo will be notified.
Depending on the privacy settings, the photo may be automatically published in the marked person's diary or may appear in the log for review.
In any case, the name will be associated with the added tag.
As explained in a specific guide, you can activate the control on the Facebook profile and tag protection so that you can approve the photos in which you are labeled (approval is disabled by default).
If a photo does not like it or if it is a wrong tag or if you simply do not want to publish this image on your photo album and diary, you can ignore the label and pretend nothing.
In the privacy settings, in addition to checking the tags, you can also decide whether to make your name appear in the suggestions .
Therefore, if you have been labeled in different images, in the following images it is possible that you are automatically recognized.
If you never want to be tagged automatically, you should change the " tag suggestions when photos that look like you " setting to None .
However, you can remove all tags from photos, both your own and those of your friends.
To remove a tag, open the photo in question and press Options.
In the simple removal request, you can send the request to also delete the photo or to block that user forever.
Among the options of the tag removal window, you can also report who published the photo for harassment, spam or hacking.
Depending on the choice made in these options, Facebook may decide to delete the photo if it finds irregularities.
The tags can, on the one hand, be invasive of privacy, but on the other hand also a convenient way of grouping all the photos in which your face appears.
It is also possible, from Facebook settings, to download all the photos in which there is your name.
Fortunately, applications that until a few years ago have automatically tagged people into images that have nothing to do with it, just to attract attention, have been blocked.
Unfortunately, however, the fashion has remained to send greetings, for example at Christmas, marking the names of all friends in images such as Christmas trees or similar things.
With tag checking, this problem is easily avoided.
