Facebook – What does “X people talking about this mean”

Facebook does count your deleted albums as I opened a new profile added two albums then I desided to delete one and it's still saying I have two albums and I did all of this before adding any friends to my profile. No pictures or albums are limited to the number of audience and because I had no friends on my list I had no one to tag me to their albums. The Photo/Album counters are just a silly idea and should be taken off.

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On the maps if you add a location to a status then later on delete the status the pinpoint counter is not removed.

If Facebook are thinking up Ideas to make it better maybe they should make it so they actually work.

I don't think this is what you're looking for to control your posts. From what I can tell when trying this is that you are changing the settings of the person's news items that appear in your newsfeed. This means if you unselect "Likes and Comments" and "Photos," you will just be preventing their posts from showing in your newsfeed. It doesn't mean that it will change the behavior of the poster's post visibility.

I think what is happening to all these people is that they are hiding those posts from themselves only, but everyone else can still see these posts based on the whatever settings the poster has set.