I don't mind seeing other people's recent photos – but I do mind them seeing mine. How can I make sure my recent photos are not showing up on other people's people widget?
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Are you referring to your News Feed (Top News), News Feed (Most Recent), or the Recent Activity on your profile?
I think that News Feed (Top News) only displays what Facebook considers to be most interesting to you, so I wouldn't expect your own likes/comments there. The News Feed setting that you mentioned applies to the Most Recent setting.
News Feed (Most Recent) does not display individual stories for comments and likes on posts; you would only see them under the corresponding post, if it is expanded. Are you saying that you expanded the likes/comments and you can see comments from other people but your comment is not there? Sometimes it takes some time for it to show up although it shouldn't take days (unless it was deleted).
If you are referring to the Recent Activity on your profile, there is an additional setting for that that you didn't mention. On your profile's Wall (not your News Feed), scroll to the bottom and click Edit Options. If you have hidden any kinds of stories from your Recent Activity these will be listed and you can unhide any of them by clicking the X and then Save.
As for the Photos tab, that used to be a known issue although the link to Facebook Help in that answer does not seem to work now. I don't know if that means that it should be fixed.
These contacts are apparently separate from the ones added by Google+. If I use the find duplicates feature to merge them, will their phone numbers now be associated with their Google+ profiles in Google's databases? Will this information be visible to other people? In short, will this violate my friends' privacy?
No, it depends on their privacy settings.
I seem to remember some scare where Facebook might or might not have grabbed phone numbers and associated them with Facebook profiles by picking them out of friends' phonebooks on their smartphones.)
That wasn't a scare, neither were the numbers "picked up", it was opt-in.
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I'm pretty sure it displays content about you that's already in their email account because you sent it to them. In other words, if you sent them a photo, it's safe to assume you don't mind that photo showing up in their people widget.