# Google's no help with facebook privacy stuff **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 20, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615 "2014-07-20T18:19:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615/1 "2014-07-20T18:19:17Z")
Google only finds old answers that are no longer useful, since facebook changes so quickly. Can someone tell me how to: [ul] [li]untag myself in someone else’s pic[/li][li]make my page invisible to searches; I only want to be visible to friends whom _I_ reach out to[/li][/ul] Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![dofe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@dofe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dofe)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615/2 "2014-07-20T19:01:54Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Google only finds old answers that are no longer useful, since facebook changes so quickly. > > Can someone tell me how to: > > untag myself in someone else’s pic > **[Remove a tag from a photo or post you're tagged in on Facebook | Facebook...](https://www.facebook.com/help/140906109319589)** > > When someone tags you in a photo or a post on Facebook, you can remove that tag. > [@lissener](#): > > make my page invisible to searches; I only want to be visible to friends whom _I_ reach out to > Thanks in advance. Facebook used to allow users to “hide” their profiles from searches. They removed this feature a few years ago. You can block specific people, but there is no way to hide your profile from general searches. > **[Who can search for me on Facebook? | Facebook Help Center](https://www.facebook.com/help/195712603906253?sr=12&query=search&sid=0RhDINdbI8qv0oYVv)** > > Everyone, except people you've blocked, can search for you and click on your profile. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615/3 "2014-07-20T19:59:50Z")
> [@dofe](#): > > [https://www.facebook.com/help/140906109319589](https://www.facebook.com/help/140906109319589) > > Facebook used to allow users to “hide” their profiles from searches. They removed this feature a few years ago. You can block specific people, but there is no way to hide your profile from general searches. > > [https://www.facebook.com/help/195712603906253?sr=12&query=search&sid=0RhDINdbI8qv0oYVv](https://www.facebook.com/help/195712603906253?sr=12&query=search&sid=0RhDINdbI8qv0oYVv) What a lot of people do now is use special characters in their names (Jøan instead of Joan) or just first name and middle name (Jennifer Louise instead of Jennifer Smith) in order to stay as anonymous as possible in searches. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615/4 "2014-07-20T22:32:06Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Google only finds old answers that are no longer useful, since facebook changes so quickly. FYI, googling “untag myself in facebook photo”'s very first link was the one that dofe linked to. What exactly did you try to google? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615/5 "2014-07-21T03:53:21Z")
Yes. I found that too, before I posted. It didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![7e42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/51bf81/32.png) [@7e42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7e42)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615/6 "2014-07-21T04:11:24Z")
My advice would to use a screen name for your facebook page if you want your page not to show up in google searches. ---
**Author:** ![7e42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/51bf81/32.png) [@7e42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7e42)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615/7 "2014-07-21T04:14:26Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > What a lot of people do now is use special characters in their names (Jøan instead of Joan) or just first name and middle name (Jennifer Louise instead of Jennifer Smith) in order to stay as anonymous as possible in searches. I think it’s better to use just Louise which would eliminate anyone seeing your real first or last name ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615/8 "2014-07-21T11:55:07Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Yes. I found that too, before I posted. It didn’t work. But it does work, always has. What happened when you tried to do it? ---
**Author:** ![HipGnosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@HipGnosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HipGnosis)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615/9 "2014-07-21T13:10:50Z")
> [@7e42](#): > > My advice would to use a screen name for your facebook page if you want your page not to show up in google searches. Good idea, but a MS quality answer. I hadda look up how to change my name on FB page/account; [https://www.facebook.com/help/173909489329079](https://www.facebook.com/help/173909489329079) ---
**Author:** ![7e42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/51bf81/32.png) [@7e42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7e42)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615/10 "2014-07-21T23:38:36Z")
> [@HipGnosis](#): > > Good idea, but a MS quality answer. > I hadda look up how to change my name on FB page/account; [https://www.facebook.com/help/173909489329079](https://www.facebook.com/help/173909489329079) I never had a lot of trust in the facebook privacy settings which is why I decided to use a screen name ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-no-help-with-facebook-privacy-stuff/693615/11 "2014-07-23T21:07:38Z")
If you just want to make it where people can’t add you, the most you can do is [restrict it to “friends of friends.”](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jDNxwUIQ0r0/UxF1zLSZVvI/AAAAAAAAA4k/A_puuXfG9ZQ/s1600/1.png) So people online can search and find your page (which you can make blank to the public), but they won’t be able to do anything from there. Anyone who is a friend of a friend could always find you anyways, since they can just look at your friend’s friends.