Disabling Facebook’s New Facial Recognition Feature

If you want to disable Facebook’s automatic facial recognition feature, do this:

• Log into your Facebook account in a Web browser
• Click Account (It’s in the upper right corner of the Facebook page)
• Choose Privacy Settings
• Click Customize settings (It’s at the bottom of the Sharing on Facebook section)
• Click Edit Settings next to Suggest photos of me to friends (It’s in the Things others share section)
• Set Suggest Photos of Me to Friends to Disabled
• Click Okay

Don’t want your face getting around? Disable Facebook’s automatic face recognition.

Disabling automatic facial recognition will stop Facebook from combing through user’s accounts for photos of you, but it won’t stop someone from manually tagging your face in a photo. You should, however, get a notification should someone tag you in a photo so you have a chance to un-tag yourself and help keep at least a modicum of online privacy.