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The trouble is it is not only you that has to follow those guidelines. Friends can put up pictures of you and tag you. Not all content about you is placed there by you.

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And you can set who can search for tagged pictures of you...

I think the average person will find it easier to socialise on two different sites or possibly have two different facebook identities, rather than altering the settings so that they can make sure that relatives can't see pictures of them looking silly or doing things that they wouldn't approve of.

Because it's a lot easier to create two separate IDs and log in and out between the two of them, or to bookmark two separate sites in the hopes that the same friends use both of them and that the interface is just as easy to use on both of them or that the features are equally good on both. Come on.

I'm not suggesting that the same friends use both of them, I'm suggesting that the youth will partition their social lives like they already do.

You have your friends and you have your family. You want your granny to be able to see the pictures your mum took, but you don't want your mum to know you are friends with bobby that she disapproves of.

And you can also un-tag those pictures of yourself.

But the damage may be done by the time you get around to it.

Which is why you restrict access to your tagged photos. Let people see photos you upload but not photos tagged of you, and you maintain absolute control over your profile.

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