Strange tagging situations on Facebook.

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Has anyone had this happen to them? Tonight I logged on to find that I had been tagged in three photos, at a party I wasnt at, and one of the tags of my name was on this man who was dressed as Joseph , with a sort of desert robe and headdress.

Another tag of my name was on a wall, and a third was a photo of my mum. Anyway quite amusing, it will possibly confuse some people in my newsfeed, particularly ones that havent seen a photo of me (some online people...)

Maybe one of your friends tagged you incorrectly?

I also recall hearing that FB was going to institute some kind of biometric software that can "recognize" faces thus auto-tag people (not in all countries). This is based on certain ratios in facial features. If this is the case we can assume the software is not that accurate yet.

I dont know what the situation is. The person whose photos it was has other photo albums, but I dont see any mistakes on any of their other photos..... bizarre.

Ok, so I have realised it is probably one of 2 things:

1) Aunt is having problems with the tagging thing

2) It is a virus or spam type application.

I think 2 is more likely as my aunt seems computer literate. I think she must have clicked on a spam thing that invaded her photo album, it has possibly made these weird random albums of her other friends too.

Now doing a virus scan. Have removed the strange album thing from my page so hopefully it wont be appearing in anyones newsfeed anymore, I dont want anyone to click on any of it if it is some kind of malware.

Well, it turns out that my aunt did this for a joke. I find myself unsure how to react to it though.

Facebook stuff seems to go right over my head. I am going to log onto G+ instead, much simpler.