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What if you tagged an embarrassing photo of me...

This happened to me 3 HOURS after joining facebook, and was not even ill-intentioned. (ah, young people!)

edit: I marked tagged photos as private for a year till that photo was untagged. The photo is still there. :(

This may not have always been the case, but you can untag yourself and once you do that no one else is allowed to retag you.

I saw the untag feature, but it shouldn't be my job to monitor facebook 24x7 to untag embarrassing photos.

It hasn't always been the case, but Facebook has a setting called "Who can see photos and videos I'm tagged in". There's also "Let friends of people tagged in my photos and posts see them."

Can someone suggest why my above comment was downvoted?

I gave an actual occurrence for a hypothetical. The only offense I can see is that it was anecdotal evidence.

edit: thanks to those who upvoted me back to 1 :)

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