? posting pics on Facebook

JenAnne · #1 March 12th, 2010, 02:28 PM

Is there a way to post pics on Facebook and disable the feature that allows other people to tag themselves in your photos?

MIL always tags herself in my photos which irritates me. She doesn't even take pics of the girls when she sees them. I don't mind if she looks at the pics (actually I do, I don't want her as a FB friend, but how do you de-friend someone you know spies on your page daily?), I just don't want her to tag herself.

~Devon~ · #2 March 12th, 2010, 02:30 PM

Is she in the pictures that she's tagging? I'm confused lol.

JenAnne · #3 March 12th, 2010, 02:34 PM

No! lol

She just tags pics of the kids to her photo albums.

I haven't uploaded any in months because I got tired of her stealing my photos.

I<3HelloKitty · #4 March 12th, 2010, 03:17 PM

Is she tagging them (putting their names on the pictures) or sharing them (hitting the share button so they show up in her facebook)?

amhk · #5 March 12th, 2010, 04:36 PM

You know what you can do.... you can put them on facebook and make it so only certain people can see it and I think MAYBE you can make it so she can't see them. Maybe a little mean, but if it's bugging you that much... ?!?!? I am not sure if there is a way that you can keep her from tagging herself, but I bet there is and either way I am sure you can un-tag her... it's your pictures!

knightsgirl · #6 March 12th, 2010, 04:47 PM

I'm not sure if you can keep her from looking at your photos ... and I'm sure there's an option you can choose so that people don't place tags on your photo. I know I put watermarks on all my pictures I post on FB and the internet in general (blogs, etc). Apparently, once you upload pics to FB they become their property ... I wasn't okay with that, so I watermarked all my photos if they had people in them (my son, me, hubby).

Anyway, hope you can figure out what to do about your MIL! Maybe she's not meaning to tag herself in photos ... she might not understand what it actually does!

oriel13 · #7 March 12th, 2010, 04:58 PM

I don't know but I'm eager to see if anyone else knows how to do this! My mom, SILs and other family do this all the time and it bothers me too. A picture of Brayden ends up being tagged by 5 or 6 different people so I know how you feel!

JenAnne · #8 March 12th, 2010, 06:45 PM

So I was talking to my mother about the whole tagging thing and she said she thinks that my MIL saves the photos to her computer and then uploads them rather than tagging. Ugh!

I know that you can have people on your list but block the content that they see b/c I've been thiiiisclose to doing it with all of DH's family before, but I chicken out every time. lol

I ended up posting something that said 'Please don't tag yourself in our photos! We've ordered prints, and everyone will get theirs in a few weeks! Thanks!', but she commented on all of them and I deleted my comment.

I guess I'm more worked up this time b/c 1. I'm pregnant and hormonal...2. DH told me -while we're getting these Spring pics done - that usually his parents get impatient waiting to see us and get the pics (they live 4 hours away), so Chris gives them the picture code and they order their own sets online. BUT THEY STILL KEEP THE COPIES THAT WE PAY FOR AND GIVE THEM!

These people....grr is putting it mildly...

mommydiva · #9 March 13th, 2010, 01:59 PM

You can do a custom setting like ad your MIL and anybody else you don't want to see and then under privacy settings photos mark who sees what. So like I have a lot of poeple on my page for games and other stuff but don't want them to see my stuff. So I have lists of them and When making my albums I do custom and click friends only except then add the names or lists I have made.
You can also do this by clicking on your photos and hitting album privacy
As far as the tagging option I am not sure.

ZZ0607 · #10 March 13th, 2010, 02:31 PM

So... don't order prints for them. I upload all of my pics to shutterfly.com and gave MIL and my mom the password so they can view, download, and print whatever they want. Usually MIL is the one paying for professional pics so there's not politics for me, except to not spend too much, out of respect. But if I was paying for it and I knew they'd be buying their own prints anyway, I'd either not order prints for them or order just one or two 3x5 or 5x7.
Just limit the content they can see. It won't send them a notice that you did or anything. And if it does, let them stress about it.