Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It

Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by criley2 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:09AM (#16765019)

"When I got back from a trip I took abroad with my family earlier this year, my friends mentioned that they'd seen the photos that "I" had posted to Facebook. Except... I hadn't posted any photos to Facebook. I have a Facebook account, but I deliberately have a very minimal presence on it. What my friends were seeing was the photos that my mother had posted, and which I had been tagged in. My privacy was violated by someone else's inability to understand Facebook's privacy settings."

Ironically, it was your OWN inability to understand Facebook's privacy settings.

Go to Settings -> Click " Timeline and Tagging Settings" -> Edit " Who can add things to my timeline? " section : " Review posts that friends tag you in before they appear on your Timeline?" make " Enabled "

There, you will never be tagged in another photo or post, and you now have a review process for anyone who attempts those things, so you can manually up or down those things.

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Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by raquo on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:25PM (#16766905)

You can't actually opt out of tagging anymore, you can only opt out of tags appearing on your timeline, but people can still see the photos and see that you are tagged in them.

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Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by quadyeast on Thursday April 05, 2018 @11:07AM (#16765569)

No, this is FB's fault. This should be opt-in.

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Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by KC8ZKF on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:52PM (#16766578)

So you have to join Facebook in order to not be tagged on Facebook?

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Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by romwell on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:30PM (#16769355)

The tags work in the way OP described only if you are already a user.

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Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by MartinCron on Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:17AM (#16765087)

I am reminded of a basic fact: You can’t opt-out of other people talking about you online.

Keeping people from tagging you is pretty close, though.

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