Last year, Facebook made available to users in North America a new technology which is supposed to make it easier for people to be tagged in photos… facial recognition software. When I checked, the feature was available (it was still disabled for many users at that time) so I deactivated it, but this week the feature went live for many Facebook users. Live for many users, without notice.
“What’s the big deal,” you ask? Well, your friends are uploading new pics and albums of photos all the time and what Facebook will now do is recognize that you may be the person in one of those images and suggest to your friend that they tag you in the photo. Problem is that the picture may not be you, or you may not want to be tagged. You can always untag yourself, but that will have to happen after the fact. No need to freak out over the new feature as it is easily disabled by using the following steps:
