Hi Paul here from PRwilson Media.
So your friend has tagged you in a post on Facebook and it appears on your own timeline.
But what if you want to take control of this.
maybe you are not happy that everything you are tagged in automatically appears on your
own Facebook page.
Here's how with Facebook timeline and tagging settings you can take control.
Here we go.
So yes you might have noticed you might get a notification you can see that you've been
tagged in a post.
That post has automatically gone onto your timeline.
So to have a look at your settings, you need to go here to the top right hand corner click
on the dropdown then click settings.
Under timeline and tagging, you'll see all the options.
The first one on the list is who can post on your timeline.
So if you notice in the drop down you can actually stop anyone being able to post, if
you set that to only me.
Next one is who can see what anybody else posts on your timeline.
The options there are your friends, even everyone if you wanted to you can make it public again
down to only me where it's only visible to yourself.
So certainly if you could stop people posting on your timeline or even if you did allow
them to make sure only you can see it that's a good option.
Let's get to the tagging part.
So who can see posts you are tagged in on your timeline.
At the moment any of your friends can see those posts.Again you could make that public
if you wanted to , through to only me.
When you are tagged in a post who do you want to add to the audience if they can't already
see it - so that's where you are mentioned and you might want to be able to basically
tag other people.
So you can continue the chain of tagging.
This is how messages spread around so again you can make that to friends or just restrict
that to only yourself.
That one is an option that's unavailable , I think it maybe discontinued I'm not sure.
And then the review.
So this is a really useful part.
So you might be happy for them to tag you , you might not.
But you want the choice.
So simply turn on the review process and you click on there and then you enable the ability
to review your posts first and that means that next time anyone tags you, you get to
choose whether you approve it or you can hide it so it doesn't appear on your timeline.
And if anyone tags somebody else on a post that you've written again you can review whether
they are allowed to copy that message because obviously that means your post would then
appear somewhere else.
So again it's a good idea to have that switched on.
So it's a great way to spread messages around, to engage with people.
You can see why Facebook support it but it's important to know that you have the ability
to take control.
It depends on how you are using Facebook.
Are you someone who is active as a personal user or not?
Are you comfortable with your images wth people seeing content personal to your inner space
being shared elsewhere?
At least you have got the option to make the choices by enabling the approval system.
So I hope that was helpful, do check out my other videos on Facebook and on all the other
main social media platforms.
All step-by-step 5 minute videos to really help you get the most out of social media.
I'm Paul from PRwilson Media your social media personal trainer.
Cheers.