Do You Always Get Tagged On Facebook? Here Is A Simple Way To Untag Yourself

Posted on the 21 October 2013 by Babanature @proudlyonenaija

Believe it or not, tagging your friends on posts you shared on Facebook is one sure way of driving traffic to your blog. Yes, this trick might be old but it is still effective and do help to get attention, engagement and interaction to once blog. But as much as it still works, it is not everybody that likes to be tagged and the truth is – even those that don’t like to be tagged won’t complain about it.

I don’t know about you but I seriously hate it when I get tagged even if I do tag people to a post once in awhile . Now here is a fact – When you always get tag by many of your Facebook friends, you will definitely get tired of it someday. Below reasons are my “why” of hating to be tagged…

Why you need to untag yourself

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→ If you are as busy as I am online and your Facebook notification sound is on, it will drive you crazy once other people starts liking and commenting on the post you’ve been tagged alongside…

→ It fills up your notification bar

→ It bridges ones privacy

→ What other reasons do you have?

I am not saying that tagging friends to a post is bad but once it gets excessive, it becomes stupidly bad .

So wouldn’t you like to untag yourself on posts you don’t want to be tagged? Now to untag yourself from tags you don’t want to be tagged in, follow the simple steps below.

Simple Way To Untag Yourself

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Go to your Facebook Timeline

Now scroll to where the post were tagged is

You will see an icon (sign) like this  above your right hand side

Have you seen it? Now click it and a dropdown menu will appear [See image below]

In the dropdown menu, click “Report/Remove Tag…”

A mini task bar will open asking you “What would you like to happen?” [See image below]

Now, click “I want to untag myself” to tick it.

Now click “Continue” to bring a new dialog box telling you that your tag has been removed.

Very simple right? The process won’t brake a sweat… Now let’s carryout the same process on our mobile device.

To Untag Yourself Using A Mobile Device

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First off, go to your Facebook mobile timeline

Scroll down to where the post you want to untag yourself is and click the little icon found on the right hand side.

Have you seen it, now click it and a drop down menu will pop out

In the drop down menu, click “Report/Mark as Spam”. Clicking it, it will take you to a new tab

Now click “I want to remove this tag” and click “Continue”

Have you done that? Now click “Remove the tag the user created” and click “Continue”

You will see a message saying “your tag has been removed”

Now you have successfully removed yourself from the tagged post or picture… simple right? Instead of unfriending people for tagging you, why not simply remove yourself from the tag?

Your Turn:

Do you always get tagged? How do you react to it? Do you like being tagged? Do drop your answer using the comment box below.

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