The meaning of " Tagging " on Facebook and in other social networks such as Instagram and Twitter is to quote a person's name in order to link a photo, post or comment, so that that person's profile is clickable and sending him a notification about that update. In practice, tagging means identifying someone in a photo or calling them into textual posts.
On Facebook when tagging a person there are four practical consequences:
- Photos and / or posts automatically appear on the user's profile (unless the user has put tag protection as we will see).
- Who is tagged receives notification of that post which, therefore, can not be ignored by him.
- The photo or post can be visible to all friends of the person tagged, if the privacy settings have not been changed.
- If the tag is on a photo, even if uploaded by others, it can be found from a person's list of photos.
The automatic facial recognition of Facebook in photos is, instead, the technology that allows you to be automatically warned if someone uploads a photo where our face appears, which can be useful in some ways, at the cost of giving up another nice slice of privacy.
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To make a general summary, even if it is practically impossible not to know how to do it, let's see how to tag on Facebook .
In the written posts and also in the comments it is possible to tag friends simply by writing their name or surname with a capital letter, without having to put the snail @ or other symbols.
In fact, when you start writing a name with a capital letter, Facebook will make a list of all the friends with that name and give you the opportunity to tag them simply by selecting that name.
In the tag, that person's name appears in full (name and surname) and highlighted in blue.
An interesting and lesser known trick is that which allows you to change the name inside the tag by deleting the surname (you cannot change the name, however), without removing the tag (the name must therefore remain highlighted in blue).
Keep in mind that to prevent the list of friends from appearing for any word with a capital letter, the tag suggestions are displayed only after typing five characters or more of a name or when writing a full name shorter than 5 letters.
In Facebook it is also possible to tag Pages, events, groups and other things, but in this case it is necessary to put the @ symbol in front of us.
For example, the Navigaweb page can be mentioned by writing @Navigaweb (also in this case the suggestions appear automatically).
Tagging the faces of friends who appear in a photo uploaded to Facebook is really easy and immediate.
On smartphones, just touch the boxes that appear above the faces on the photo before sharing.
On the PC, from the Facebook site, you must instead press the Tagga button, which is the one with the little man symbol at the bottom.
You can also add the tag after uploading and sharing the photo, opening it on the site and pressing the button on the right Tag the photo .
You can remove the tag of our name from a photo by placing the mouse cursor on your name to bring up our tab and then press the Remove tag link.
To check all the posts and photos in which we have been tagged, you must open the Facebook activity log.
Facebook's facial recognition allows you to speed up the tags on photos, so that Facebook itself says that a certain person appears in a photo.
The novelty of facial recognition, notified to all in these days of April 2018 by requesting specific approval, had already been activated several years ago, then withdrawn following legal checks in the European Union (in the USA it has always been there).
On the presentation page of Facebook's facial recognition function, the function is presented with undeniable advantages, including:
- Make the action of tagging people in photos faster;
- Check if strangers who use a photo with our face;
- Help those with vision problems to recognize themselves in the photos;
The facial recognition, which is based on the tags already made in the past, therefore allows Facebook to make an analysis of the photos that are uploaded by suggesting the names of the people who "sees" in the image .
You can disable facial recognition in Facebook by going to Settings> facial recognition, by moving the option to Facebook to recognize you in photos and videos "> protection of tags, so that when someone tags us, before the photo or the post is visible in our diary and to our friends, we must give an approval.
The two options are under the Check section, one to check if the tagged posts appear on the profile and the other to approve the tags.
In the same section of settings you can also decide who can see the posts in which we have been tagged in the diary and then also which people can add to the audience of the post when we are tagged.
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