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If you’re worried about your Facebook friends posting embarrassing or incriminating photos of you, track down the evidence through your Activity Log.

To access this, click the Privacy Shortcuts (padlock) icon in, the top-right corner of every page, choose ‘Who can see my stuff?’ and select Use Activity Log. Click the ‘Photos of You’ link in the left-hand column to view every Facebook picture you’ve been tagged in. Hover your mouse over the Friends icon next to a photo to discover exactly who can see it. To hide the picture from your friends, click the pencil icon and choose ‘Hidden from timeline’. To delete it from Facebook altogether, or at least stop it identifying you, select ‘Report/ Remove tag’ and follow the ‘What would you like to happen?’ instructions.

You can prevent further tagged photos of you from appearing in your Timeline by going to Account Settings,‘Timeline and Tagging’ and clicking the Edit link next to ‘Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline?’. Choose Enabled from the drop-down menu and you’ll now be asked to approve posts you’re tagged in (although they’ll still appear in other people’s feeds). Alternatively, change the setting for ‘Who can see posts you’ve been tagged in on your timeline?’ to ‘Only me’.