As in the subject line — does Facebook really enforce that your profile picture be a photo of yourself? If so, where have they historically drawn the line with respect to gray areas (such as a photo with only your shoe, or a cartoon-ized or photoshop'd image of yourself)?
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You can’t delete that particular album. Even if is empty, the album is still present, being automatically generated by Facebook.
To delete a picture from this album, go to the album → open the respective picture → click on Options at the bottom of the picture → click Delete This Photo
A Great post is here.
tl;dr Make the cover image 850px315px, cut your profile at 125px125 upload at 200x200px
Read the link above, also here, for the full text on what he did.
Disclosure: The link these are taken from is not on a page or site owned/operated by myself but rather found through Google. The images are owned by that page and are posted here in case that site goes away. However, the whole text isn't listed here to give that blog the love for detailing this out.
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From seeing the swathe of cartoons, bikes, other people, group shots, landscapes and whatever else, it looks like pretty much anything goes.
Just so long as you abide by the Facebook Terms of Service and that you have the right to distribute the photo (i.e. you own the photo) you're fine to use whatever photo or image you want. Though even the latter stipulation isn't really regulated.
If it's the kind of image that would be on the line for obscenity, nudity or vulgarity, then it would be a problem if other users flagged the profile photo.
No, it doesn't look like they enforce the rule that it must be your actual face on the profile.