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by sotojuan 3602 days ago
This has been around for years. It's interesting how many people complain about Facebook allowing oversharing and tagging when at this point, they give you more options to handle and restrict your interactions than ever.
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While I agree that the knee-jerk reaction is overblown and 90% of the time people can do exactly the thing they complain about not being able to do on FB, it's not as easy a process to find the page and manage the settings as it could be. Most of the non-tech people I've talked to about this don't even realize FB has an "account settings" screen.
Facebook does have a habit of switching things up often (not in the best way) but right now it's not too bad, here are some examples:

https://i.imgur.com/vxtiePM.png

https://i.imgur.com/1epcmNA.png

I can stop people tagging me in such a way as it shows on my profile, but I can't stop my friends from "linking" my name as a comment on some inane clickbait with a "lol"

grrr