How to disable Facebook Photo tagging on your profile

March 16, 2010 · 15 comments

Facebook is very addictive social networks with lots of spammy applications and user’s. We usually avoid spam’s but things get worse when someone misuse the Facebook Photo tagging feature for you. Some applications like “Who Staked Your Profile” and others contaminate your and your friends wall after gaining the access.

You can disable Facebook Photo tagging by few simple steps:

1.Go to your Facebook Privacy Settings
FacebookPrivacySettingsOptions thumb How to disable Facebook Photo tagging on your profile

2.You also simple go to “Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites >What your friends can share about you” and Unchecked the “Photos and videos of me” .

Below mentioned screen shots will help you in disabling the Facebook Photo tagging:

FacebookPrivacySettings thumb How to disable Facebook Photo tagging on your profile

a) Go to “What your friends can share about you through applications and websites”

FacebookPrivacySettingApplicationsWebsite thumb How to disable Facebook Photo tagging on your profile

b) Uncheck “Photos and videos of me”

FacebookPrivacySettingApplicationsWebsite thumb1 How to disable Facebook Photo tagging on your profile

After saving the changes no one can tag you via photos on walls. Though this tip will block photo tagging but your friends can still tag your profile with @username functions.

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{ 15 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Ramnath March 16, 2010 at 10:13 am

This is a cool tip; at times protects you from embarrassing situations.

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2 Honey Singh March 16, 2010 at 1:48 pm

@Ramnath
Yeah,
On facebook anyone can tag on explicit and objected photos which also showed under your walls.
Secondly, photo tagging spam are very common on facebook.

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3 techprone March 16, 2010 at 2:21 pm

How to disable ##Facebook Photo #tagging on your profile http://goo.gl/fb/S1Py #tools #howto #internet #photoediting

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4 Andrew Power March 19, 2010 at 8:51 am

How to disable photo tagging on #Facebook. /http://bit.ly/aUaVJc

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5 Harsh Agrawal April 10, 2010 at 9:58 pm

RT @techprone: How to disable Facebook Photo tagging on your profile http://bit.ly/98Adai

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6 Arix April 29, 2010 at 9:34 am

says http://tinyurl.com/29t89v8 (PARA HINDI KNA MA TAG SA FACEBOOK!) :-) http://plurk.com/p/4xmp7b

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7 Arix April 29, 2010 at 9:35 am

shares http://tinyurl.com/29t89v8 (PARA HINDI KNA MA TAG SA FACEBOOK!) http://plurk.com/p/4xmph5

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8 angelina page May 30, 2010 at 6:29 am

How to disable Facebook Photo tagging on your profile – http://www.techprone.com/how-to-disable-facebook-photo-tagging-on-your-profile/

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9 jamal July 15, 2010 at 4:03 am

thanks, u have no idea how long i was looking for this answer, thanks so much!!!

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10 Faisal September 30, 2010 at 8:42 am

Thanks.
Very valuable and time saving info for me.

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11 DoG November 19, 2010 at 11:19 pm

c’mon, tagging cannot be disabled, it’s a major spy feature. no news.

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12 AndrejRavnikar December 24, 2010 at 12:05 pm
13 Enigma February 21, 2011 at 2:12 am

the latest layout doesn’t work this way, is there anything else that can be done?

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14 jak April 8, 2011 at 3:34 pm

I am also looking for it and connot find it ! is it not possible anymore? that would be a shame

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15 Zequez May 22, 2011 at 3:11 am

But I only want my grandma to not be able to tag me :S

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