Facebook – How to get a non-friend to view photos I’ve been tagged in

If you post to "Friends" or more (including "Friends of Friends" or "Public"), then the friends of the people that are tagged will also be able to see, like, and comment on your post.

When I tag someone in a photo or post, who can see it?

When you tag someone, it may be visible to:

1. The audience you selected for your post.
2. Friends of the person you tagged (if the audience is set to Friends or more).

People who can see your photo or post can also like or comment on it.

You can get around this by posting to a friend list instead. If you create a friend list with all of your friends on it and post to that list (by entering the list name using the Custom setting), then you can post to all of your friends without automatically including the friends of the tagged people. However when you add new friends you would need to remember to manually add them to that friend list.

I've found three source that indicate that what you expect is just not how Facebook photo tagging works.

I don't know if this is the current behavior, but it seems that in 2012, when you asked the question, this was the behavior. And also on 2014-5 when those answers in the sources were given.

Sources:

^{The answers were given by Star Contributors.}

• Tagging Photos in Groups?

  Photos from Groups don't show on Timelines. They may show in their Newsfeed depending upon if they are a member of the Group and follow it.

• Tag someone and myself in a 'group',but the "tag photo" not showed on timeline.

  Tags within a group will only show within a group.

• Why can't I see photos from a public group on my timeline photos of me?

  Groups don't work that way...tagging is a type of notification. You can share the album to your Timeline if you want. But note if the album is deleted from the Group, it's deleted from your Timeline.