# How the fuck do I un-tag myself from a Facebook photo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 30, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-fuck-do-i-un-tag-myself-from-a-facebook-photo/537807 "2010-04-30T00:27:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-fuck-do-i-un-tag-myself-from-a-facebook-photo/537807/21 "2010-04-30T22:10:36Z")
> [@hibernicus](#): > > I went to their home page and they show profile pictures of people who supposedly like their product - among the random people they show is one of my Facebook friends. I am very suspicious. Did FB Purity know who I am and access my Facebook friends list when I visited their site? It’s not the kind of behaviour that makes me trust them enough to voluntarily run their script on my computer. What you are seeing is called a [Like Box](http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Like_Box) that is run from the Facebook servers and can be put on any Web page by anyone with a Facebook account. Here’s the code from the FBPurity site - it’s 100% run by Facebook: ```auto ``` If your friends are showing up in the Like box that means that you have friends that have gone to the FB Purity Facebook page and clicked “Like” (previously “Become a Fan”). The Facebook application called from the site gets information from the Facebook cookie you have in your browser and of the 5000+ “likers” shows ones that are people you know. How on earth do you think the Web site for this application you’ve never downloaded is able to get information about your Facebook account? It can’t. But the Facebook application, hosted by Facebook, on the Facebook server that is embedded on their page can. ---
**Author:** ![rekkah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rekkah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rekkah)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-fuck-do-i-un-tag-myself-from-a-facebook-photo/537807/22 "2010-05-01T00:34:13Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > For all those of you who hate hate hate Facebook because your friends clog up your newsfeeds with junk (I don’t hate FB but I do hate junk) I beg you to try out [FB Purity](http://www.fbpurity.com/). I don’t work for or with them or even know who they are…I just know that their little script has changed my FB experience forever (for the better) and I love them dearly! **ZipperJJ** , I think I originally got FB Purity on after seeing you recommend it, so can I just say a huge thank you! It has hugely improved my facebook experience. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-fuck-do-i-un-tag-myself-from-a-facebook-photo/537807/23 "2010-05-01T04:09:36Z")
> [@rekkah](#): > > **ZipperJJ** , I think I originally got FB Purity on after seeing you recommend it, so can I just say a huge thank you! It has hugely improved my facebook experience. Someone here recommended it to me (wish I could remember who!) and now you’ll find me advocating it in every FB thread that comes up. It’s wonderful! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-fuck-do-i-un-tag-myself-from-a-facebook-photo/537807.md?page=1)