You Can Approve Facebook Tags Before They Show Up Now

Facebook announced quite a lot of changes to its privacy controls and default behavior. While it borrowed quite a lot of good ideas from Google+ for the inline privacy settings, either that or perhaps "great minds think alike," it also introduced better control over tags, something users have been asking for for ages.

One of the most important changes when it comes to tags is the ability to control who gets to tag you not only after the fact, but before the tags become visible to anyone, on your profile.

"One of the top requests we've heard is for the ability to approve these tags before they show up on your profile," Facebook's Chris Cox wrote.

"You can choose to use the new tool to approve or reject any photo or post you are tagged in before it's visible to anyone else on your profile," he added.

This small change should be great for all the times all of your family and coworkers get too see your latest, and perhaps not greatest, party photos since your friends tagged you in them.

Along the same lines, Facebook is also introducing the ability to approve tags that other people add to your photos or posts. Before, anyone that could see the content had the ability to add tags.

Facebook is taking another page right out of Google+, which took it from Twitter, and enabling users to tag anyone on Facebook in your and others' posts.

These tags won't show up on that person's profile until they approve them, but this small change makes it possible to do things like @reply someone. That said, Facebook already has its own, limited version of the @reply.

Facebook is also making it clearer what removing a tag from someone else's photos means, giving the users the choice of removing the tag, or asking for the photo to be removed altogether.