How To Disable Facebook's Tag Suggestions

Yesterday Facebook rolled out a new feature called Tag Suggestions.

According to a blog post on The Facebook Blog, this is what the feature is all about:

"When you or a friend upload new photos, we use face recognition software—similar to that found in many photo editing tools—to match your new photos to other photos you're tagged in. We group similar photos together and, whenever possible, suggest the name of the friend in the photos."

Not surprisingly, this Face Recognition feature is enabled by default! This may be useful for some people who upload photos in bulk and tag everybody in every picture.

For others, if you don't want Facebook to automatically detect your face and suggest tag to friends, here's how you can disable this feature. It's very simple! (takes only 7 clicks!)

1. Click on Account 
2. Click on Privacy Settings
   
   

   

   Privacy Settings page

3. Click on Customize settings
   
   
   
4. Scroll down to "Things others share" section. Click on the Edit Settings next to
   Suggest photos of me to friends
   When photos look like me, suggest my name
   
   
   
5. Click on Enabled and change it to Disabled
6. Click on Okay to save that setting.
7. Congratulations! Now you can continue with your Facebooking, or whatever else you were doing before coming here :-)