A really good reason for using a handle on the Cellar

[TheMercenary]

Great post rich. This is interesting. As glatt stated searches of you on FB by an employer or prospective employer is not new. Which is why I always recommended to people not to ever use your real name on FB. The reality is unless your friends also cop into your attempt to remain anonymous on FB you can be linked by pictures that others ID you in, or just casual conversations. It also brings up how effective some of the counter services are like Reputation Defender, http://www.reputation.com/ .

On a related note it is important that if you want to avoid easy data mining to never use the same alias on various social forums you participate in. I have seen people on this site do this to others here, search their Cellar name and find other sites they have posted on. Unless they get ahold of your IP, that is if you have a static IP address, it would be hard to find a trail if you change your name on each site. I never use the same name on any place I participate in.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

The reality is unless your friends also cop into your attempt to remain anonymous on FB you can be linked by pictures that others ID you in

If you are tagged in someone else's picture in Facebook, you can remove the tag. Don't like a picture of you on FB? Just delete the tag. It won't show up in any searches of you.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by glatt

If you are tagged in someone else's picture in Facebook, you can remove the tag. Don't like a picture of you on FB? Just delete the tag. It won't show up in any searches of you.

I have only found myself in one and I removed that. How do you search for yourself in other pictures on FB that someone may have posted?

[glatt]

Exactly. If you can't search for yourself, then other people can't either.

The only way you show up in a picture is if you are tagged. Only your friends can tag you. If you are tagged, it shows up automatically in your pictures. No searching is necessary.

(You click on your name, which takes you to your wall. Over on the left is "Photos." You click on that and look through those pictures. That collection of photos is every picture on FaceBook where you have been tagged, even if someone else posted it.)

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by glatt

Exactly. If you can't search for yourself, then other people can't either.

The only way you show up in a picture is if you are tagged. Only your friends can tag you. If you are tagged, it shows up automatically in your pictures. No searching is necessary.

(You click on your name, which takes you to your wall. Over on the left is "Photos." You click on that and look through those pictures. That collection of photos is every picture on FaceBook where you have been tagged, even if someone else posted it.)

Thanks.