9 Sep 2011 [1] seems to be the date at which they introduced that. I have since set that setting as you recommend, but I was definitely on Facebook before that. I guess the unsettling feeling (combined with this and all the incidents where changing an arcane library of settings is quite often bound to leave an open passage) has just stayed around since then.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/09/the-new-facebook-pr...

EDIT: Just made a double-check now, guess what? An open passage:

Note: You can still be tagged, and tags may appear elsewhere on Facebook. I can't review the tags if they are found on someone else's timeline.