Abstinence makes you stronger
As with herpes, once you’ve got a Facebook profile, you’re pretty much stuck with it. Even if you delete your profile, your information could be saved on the Facebook servers for up to six months. Any photos of you that live in other people’s albums will remain, tagged with your name. Comments you’ve made on other walls will live on forever.
The only sure way to protect yourself is total abstinence. Don’t sign up, and the risk you run is minimized. If you’ve got friends with profiles, ask them very politely to crop you out of any photos they plan to post, or at the very least not to tag you by name.
If you’ve already got a Facebook account, making moves now to protect yourself may be futile, but there are some steps you can take to limit your exposure and guard at least some of your personal information.