Dear Cybersorter,
Before Facebook, I had a compartmentalised life. In work, I am Mr. Professional, wearing a tie and waving at charts. When I get home, I try to be romantic. When I'm with my friends, I'm probably going to be the one wearing a lampshade as a hat.
Now, thanks to Facebook tagging, my world is in tatters! My credibility is shot! People tag me in all sorts of incriminating pictures, how can I stop them doing that!
I can't defriend anyone (I am, after all, friends with all of them), but I'd like to avoid the sinking feeling I get when I get the email that someone has tagged a photo of me.
Yours, Compromised.
Dear Compromised,
Facebook membership means your life is an open picture book. The problem is you are not always the author or editor of your own story. You cannot stop anyone from tagging you in a photo but you can go view the photo and click "remove tag".
Unfortunately the owner of the photo can still leave the picture up for anyone to see.
How much do you know and trust your Facebook friends?Anthropologist Robin Dunbar asserts that you can only sustain stable social relationships with roughly 150 people. Apply Dunbar's number to your Facebook.
If you find a photo of yourself you don’t like; 1) ring or visit the "friend" who has posted the offending picture and ask them to take it off the site, (this won't go down well if you yell at your wife for posting a picture of you walking hand in hand in the sunset) 2) Never friend anyone stupid, 3) Never do anything stupid, or 4) Compartmentalise your social media. Facebook is not the only platform.
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