Most of us have different groups of Facebook friends: co-workers and other colleagues, old buddies, family members, neighbors, etc. Some of these friends love to take pictures or (possibly worse) to scan old photos and upload them to Facebook. If they tag photos with your name, you’ll see them in your newsfeed, and so will all of your friends. This can be embarrassing, whether it’s party pictures from the weekend or old photographs of you as an adorable toddler. Those old ones might not be so bad if only there weren’t so many of them, but once your mother starts scanning the old album, there’s no stopping her. I know — I am one of those scan-happy mothers.
It’s easy to change your privacy settings to keep all your friends from seeing photographs of you uploaded by other people
- Under Account, select Privacy Setting
- Click on Customize Settings
- Scroll down to Things others share and choose Photos and videos I’m tagged in
- Change the dropdown to Only Me
