Facebook privacy of photo albums

<p>Hey people, there's this thing about facebook which has been bugging me for the past couple of days and I was hoping the CC community would provide me with some answers. I'm sorry if my query sounds a bit too circuitous.</p>

<p>If a friend tags me in a photo which is part of a photo album he/she created, under default privacy settings, all my friends including the ones who aren't friends with the album creator can simply click on the album title and view the all the photos(even the ones in which I'm not tagged in). So far, I have not been able to set my privacy settings such that my friends can see only the photos I'm tagged in.</p>

<p>If the album creator sets the privacy of the album he/she created to "only friends", then none of my contacts who are not friends with the creator will be able view any picture at all(including the ones I'm tagged in). In short, there is no middle way.</p>

<p>I find this irritating because this violates the privacy of the other people who are part of the photo album and who, understandably, don't want random people looking at their photos.</p>

<p>So far, the only way around this that I can think of is to download the photos, delete the ones on facebook and upload the photos as stand-alone profile pics. This is a bit too cumbersome for my liking.I know this is a really trivial matter and some people will find it ludicrous that I've dedicated a whole thread to it but its been really bothering me. I'm hoping someone tells me of an easy way around this which I'm not aware of.
Thanks in advance!</p>

<p>I do not think there is a way to limit it with the current privacy options available on facebook. And even if there was one, you can still be tagged in a picture with some other people, and by looking at you in that picture, your friends aka some random people will get to see other friends of yours, who might not want to be looked at. </p>

<p>Are you an Arsenal fan (nickname?) That’s amazing :)</p>

<p>I just untag myself from everything periodically. Boring? Yes. But I’d rather reveal too little about myself than too much. The photos are out there anyway, but I figure that people don’t need to know everything about me, and I think that anyone I want to see the photos will recognize me without the tag.</p>

<p>Yeah, guess I could do that…
@Alone: Yeah I am an Arsenal fan but it’s not that amazing when you consider I’m from Europe :)</p>

<p>In early June, 60 Minutes (I think it was 60 minutes) ran a segment on the Deanza College (CA) alleged rape case where three girls intervened on behalf of a partially clothed, vomit covered drunk teen who appeared to be being gang raped while several males watched and the door was being blocked. Anyway, I found it very interesting that the news show was able to air Facebook photos of the alleged male perpetrators, who of course declined being interviewed for the show, and gave credit to Facebook for the pictures. This was the first time I saw Facebook photos used like this. I am sure the boys were not thrilled, but found it a little scary that these photos could be lifted and used on a public medium, apparantly as long as they gave the source of the photo. So be aware of this possibility!</p>

<p>Even with privacy options…you can still find everything. My employer last semester spent lots of money and went to great lengths to scour the internet (this includes facebook). I knew one of the contractors who was working in that department and they get through privacy settings. If it’s on facebook, they’ll find it.</p>

<p>One other thing that the department did was look at your friends, which I found a little odd. They basically scrolled through friend lists to see what kind of people you associated yourself with.</p>

<p>Basically, you put the photos on the internet…if someone wants to spend the time/money to get them, they can. And they’re free to use them as they please.</p>

<p>While I don’t put anything even remotely objectionable on my own page, I’m very cautious about what other people post as well. Girls with cameras scare me. You know what I mean.</p>

<p>Set your settings so that FB emails you every time someone tags you. Then you can just untag yourself if you feel the need.</p>

<p>Even if you don’t receive any emails from Facebook, it still tells you in the notifications if you’re tagged in a photo.</p>

<p>That’s what I do. And you can always ask your friends to not tag you when posting up photos.</p>

<p>Just untag yourself.</p>

<p>And, ■■■■■ at the name (Arshavin Save Us)</p>

<p>facebook has ALOT of loopholes in privacy. Nothing much you can do. I hate random people commenting on videos, notes and photos I upload.</p>

<p>And then there’s that Photo Stalker app. I think if you set your settings a certain way, your photos won’t show up on it – but most people don’t.</p>