On Facebook, you might have circles of friends (old & new), family and workmates all mingling in the one space– your profile.
What if a old friend posts a photo of you from THAT party fifteen years ago– a photo that belongs to your wild, wild days? (Or even just one night of letting your hair hang down.)
That blast from the past is now being eyeballed by everyone you know.
It’s a scene being experienced by Facebook users right now. An old friend or acquaintance posts a group photo and tags your photo. (Tagging is simply inserting the name of someone in a photo.)
So what do you do if an embarrassing photo of you pops up?
Well, you can untag it. If you look for your name below the photo, you’ll see the option to remove the tag.
Another thing you can do is to stop people from searching Facebook for photos of you altogether. (At the time of writing this post, there is apparently no way of blocking people from tagging you though.)
This post in Gadgetwise by Paul Boutin explains step-by-step how you can block people from searching for photos of you on Facebook.
If all fails and you see that photo on your office wall on Monday morning (copied from Facebook and blown up to poster-size by one of your wonderful work colleagues– remember that when we’re old, we’re meant to regret what we didn’t do rather than what we did do.
