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How to disable Facebook Photo tagging on your profile

by Honey Singh on March 16, 2010 · 6 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
Facebook-Privacy-Settings-Options

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:

Facebook-Privacy-Settings

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

Facebook-Privacy-Setting-Applications-Website

b) Uncheck “Photos and videos of me”

Facebook-Privacy-Setting-Applications-Website

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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2 Ramnath March 16, 2010 at 10:13 am

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

3 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.

6 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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