My friends are crazy about tagging people in photos and status updates on Facebook. To the point of being annoying. To the point where they tag me in photos that I’m not actually in. How can I untag myself when that happens?
Yeah, I have some friends and colleagues who are a bit overzealous about tagging me on their Facebook posts, whether they’re photos I’m not actually in or status updates where they seek to draw my attention. In both cases, rather annoying and sometimes awkward, like when I was tagged as being at a pretty out of control party when I wasn’t even in town at the time!
Often it’s easy to manage your being tagged because you can set up your Facebook account to require that the tag be manually approved before it can show up on your timeline, but if they’re friends, well, they often get to just tag you anyway, regardless of that privacy setting. [Read this for more info: How to set up your Facebook account so you have to manually approve people tagging you]
Even with that set, as I said, you can still be tagged in a photo. And now it’s a bit harder to figure out how to untag yourself.
For example, I was recently tagged in an event photo, the first of which was this update on my notifications menu:
The heck? What event is this?
I click on the notification to get to the photo, where I saw this posted on Facebook by my friend Ashley (the photo would appear on the left, but I’ve omitted here so we can zero in on what’s going on):
I’m sure I wasn’t actually at this event so Ashley was just being overzealous in adding me to the list. Or someone was there posing as me and running up the bar tab. One of the two!
No obvious way to untag myself, is there? The secret is to look very closely at the pop-up window that appears when I move the cursor over my own name:
Can you see the link?
Very top, “Remove tag”. As subtle as they could make it, those Facebook designers.
Click on it and your name vanishes…
That’s the solution. Really subtle. And it’ll likely change in six months. But for now, that’s how ya do it…
THANK YOU! Sorry for the solid caps but people tag me way too much and it truly annoys me. Especially nowadays when you try and untag yourself and after jumping through a hoop of clicking in my activity log, the last part is asking me to message these people to ask them to not tag me. Honestly, I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. I just want to quietly and simply untag myself like I used to. I hope that this simple way will stay solid. Thanks again!
It’s really very annoying when people tag you in photos or posts that has nothing to do with you.
I have had a lot of such experiences, mostly from a friend who always uploaded his selfies and tagged everyone in his list. I had to untag myself from every photo of his and had to tell him to stop tagging me in the future.
That really helped me! 🙂