An End to Facebook Photo Tagging Wars
January
10
2009
Looks like Facebook has stepped in to stop the endless tagging wars. A brief recap for posterity:
This Andthat: OMG!!! It's my friend So Andso! I'm so totally tagging his/her ass. So Andso: OMG!!! I look sooooo totally hideous in this photo! I am so untagging my ass and then kicking This Andthat's ass! This Andthat: WTF?! So Andso untagged his/her ass from this awesome photo in which he/she looks hideously rad! I'm so retagging. So Andso: WTG?! I'm gonna open a can of whoopass. Repeat.
But no more! Here’s what happens when you try to re-tag someone who was previously tagged:
No more re-tagging
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This is great. Now they just need to prevent photo deletion so everyone in the know can continue to enjoy ridiculous and/or compromising photos of their friends.
I'm pretty sure that's been there a long time? Maybe not the error message but I know I've been unable to re-tag people — maybe it was only there for 3rd party tagging? The owner of the photo could always retag perhaps?
Aside: typing in here is pegging my dual cpus.
Might this have been an attempt to re-tag me after some rather unflattering #brundlecamp photos? Hah.
Er…. yes. Yes it was. Busted!
The thing is, it totally doesn't tell you that someone has untagged themselves until you try to tag them again. Would be better if there was a list of de-tagged people so you didn't even try (or maybe that they were just disabled in your list of friends with a note?).