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Comment by shogun21 | Hacker News Reader

You can change your privacy settings so you have to approve everything before going on your wall/feed.

This has been around for years. It's interesting how many people complain about Facebook allowing oversharing and tagging when at this point, they give you more options to handle and restrict your interactions than ever.

While I agree that the knee-jerk reaction is overblown and 90% of the time people can do exactly the thing they complain about not being able to do on FB, it's not as easy a process to find the page and manage the settings as it could be. Most of the non-tech people I've talked to about this don't even realize FB has an "account settings" screen.

Facebook does have a habit of switching things up often (not in the best way) but right now it's not too bad, here are some examples:

https://i.imgur.com/vxtiePM.png

https://i.imgur.com/1epcmNA.png

I can stop people tagging me in such a way as it shows on my profile, but I can't stop my friends from "linking" my name as a comment on some inane clickbait with a "lol"

grrr

That's what I've done. Just to be clear to the grand-parent, you are still tagged. It just doesn't appear under... I've lost track of the FB terminology: On your "wall", profile, whatever.

It will still show up in your "newsfeed" of other posts -- the thing you typically browse.

It's an example of a dark or semi-dark pattern from FB. You can't really stop it, nor others' actions with respect to it. You can only limit some of its propagation and perception.

You on FB? You get tagged.

> That's what I've done. Just to be clear to the grand-parent, you are still tagged.

That hasn't happened to me... I don't approve some photo tags my friends added and they're not on my profile at all.

The photo/post does appears in my newsfeed because well, my friend posted it. Unless I unfollow them it'll show up, right?

And worse, their auto-tagging algo is not good enough to differentiate between similar siblings. I am routinely tagged as me, in photos of my brother, on my brother's timeline.

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