Protect yourself, Facebook allows third-party advertisers to advertise dating services with your photo without your permission!

Facebook occasionally pairs advertisements with relevant social actions from a user’s friends to create Facebook Ads. Facebook Ads make advertisements more interesting and more tailored to you and your friends.

By implication, when your friend is using Facebook, he or she could very well be selling an advertisement saying “Look for hot singles!” with your photo underneath. Apparently this was what happened to someone.

With its growing user base allowing it to position itself favorably to advertisers, perhaps Facebook needs to hire a moral consultant for the making of its future policy.

For now, here is a quick guide to turn off the ability to allow third-party advertisers to use your photos in their ads on facebook.

1) Click on Settings
2) Click on Privacy
3) Click on News Feed and Wall
4) Click on “Facebook Ads”
5) In the “Appearance in Facebook Ads” box, click “no one”

Lets hope Facebook and other social networking sites keep their act together and know how to draw the line.