Unless you think it's the tags that cause people to go and look at the photo I can't see what that solves. If you no longer have an account they can't tag you any more, but you will still be on the photo. At present I get a message immediately if anyone tags me in a photo so I can go and look at the context and do any damage limitation necessary to stop that photo being circulated in places that might be less appropriate. If I got rid of my account then if someone posts up a photo of me legless at a party (won't happen, not drunk for years but makes a good e.g.) I won't know about it.

I only have my genuine friends as FB friends so if I asked them to restrict a photo they would. Far too few people use friend lists to restrict their friends to Friends and "friends" so they lump in their BFF with the woman I met at the BBQ's sister-in-law, and there's no need for both to have the same permissions. I do a lot of FB privacy lessons for my friends in this sort of situation to show them how to share the pic without making it visible to friend of a friend of a friend of a friend.

Unfortunately, however, the law makes photos the property of the person behind the camera, not the person in front of it. If they choose to display it and they break no copyright or decency law in doing so then all you can do is get cross.

This was an old thread, not really so much about Facebook but about someone having their photos on display. I'm closing it because the original thread had moved on before being brought back up. If you want to discuss Facebook, feel free to do so in General Chatter.