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On top of that, it is surprisingly complex to properly manage your public 'face' on facebook, even for tech-savvy people. For example, whenever I interact with someone I don't know, I usually check if they have a facebook account. But often, especially in Germany, the profile of people exposed to non-friends is minimal to the point that there aren't even any photos of said person. I've found that very often the solution is simple: click on the username in the search field, click on 'photos of <user>' and suddenly you'll see a bunch of photos of the user and their friends. In some cases, the user is smart enough to untag themselves from these photos. If that's the case, I click on 'photos <user> liked' and I often get a few photos with the user in it anyways. I've made this mistake myself, because it wasn't immediately obvious to me that this was possible, and there were many photos that I'd liked (and even actively untagged myself from), well before the new search bar was introduced. Another thing I found out only recently, well after the point where I thought I had sufficiently 'scrubbed' my profile, is that I still had many 'interests' that I had entered years ago when this was still an active thing (music, tv shows, etc.). Because of FB's interface changes, I had completely forgotten that I had entered these. |