Enough With The Photo Tagging!
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 7/21/2017 1:00:00 AM
Think before you tag!
Social media is a wonderful thing. Where else can you share photos of the macaroni and cheese you just made with all your friends, family, and coworkers? Before Facebook came along, sharing photos meant that you had two copies made of each print, so you can give away the extra copy.
Since then, we can not only share every photo with hundreds of our friends and family at once, we can even share them with strangers who happen to be the friends and family of the people we tag in photos. That's where things start to get weird.
The trouble with tagging photos is that a lot of people don't realize that when you tag the people in your photos, you are essentially adding your photo to the Timelines of every person you tag. This means all their friends and family will see YOUR photos too, even if your friend doesn't particularly want them to see them.
Although Facebook has ways for you to block people from posting on your Timeline, many people have no idea how to do it and they end up with all sorts of photos appearing in their Timeline that they would rather remain private.
You to a party at the beach, have a few drinks, and have a great time. Simple enough. But what happens when one of the people takes photos of you completely drunk, and you look like a mess... and they post them on Facebook... and they tag you in every one of them? What will the people at work think about them? Some of them have never seen you without a suit and tie, and now you've got your ass hanging out as you vomit into a paper bag. Wonderful.
For some people it doesn't even have to be that extreme. Maybe they just don't like the way their hair looks, or the outfit they're wearing, or they simply weren't in a good mood and didn't like the look on their face.
The bottom line is they may not be as enthusiastic about sharing your photos are you were. The simplest solution is to simply ask before tagging. When in doubt... just post them on your own, without tagging.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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