How does iPhoto references Facebook photos

Just wondering, I have many Facebook albums that I uploaded using Facebook online
I have just synced my account with iPhoto and its downloading all of my Facebook albums to my library
Is it actually making copies of the files to my library, or just referencing the photos from Facebook, because I really don't want it to download copies to my library
Cheers

I'm having the exact same issue as FBC_21CA (the 1st response to andy.lawrence). I want to remove my Facebook account from iPhoto but the confusing warning message has me completely stumped.
As I've learned from reading a heap of forum posts on this topic, I too am a Facebook/iPhoto album upload user who did not realise the convenient upload function meant permanent syncing between the two.
In January this year [2013], when I unwittingly started making a mess of my FB albums by deleting pictures from my iPhoto library, I stopped using iPhoto to upload pics to FB. Well, I THOUGHT I did, which I've only just NOW realised was still happening! What I started doing to "get around it" (so I thought) was copying/dragging pictures from iPhoto to Finder (my desktop) then opening my FB account > upload new pics > browse to image location, etc. Perhaps stupidly on my part, I never thought to investigate the "WEB" sidebar menu item in iPhoto, which is where I've just found all the "Facebook Albums" that were being created 'behind my back'.
It was only today I looked into this again because I was editing some image descriptions on a Facebook Page (totally unrelated to my personal FB profile) that I manage and noticed a bunch of pics had the description "posted". This is a note-to-self I write in the image description field in iPhoto so I know which images I have published on my website (a Tumblr) versus those I have not. What!?!
Note: Every picture I've uploaded to my FB PAGE has been done using my same "workaround" (which actually didn't work) mentioned above. That is, copying/dragging pictures from iPhoto to Finder (my desktop) then opening my FB account > upload new pics > browse to image location, etc.
So now that this annoying sync function is screwing with my work-related photo albums (on my FB Page), something finally had to be done. I researched the forums and found this post from "jackiefromport hope" - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3514110 - which explained how to unsync iphoto and facebook. BUT when I go to do that, I get:
Are you sure you want to remove [your] Facebook account?
54 albums will be removed from your iPhoto library. They will still be visible on Facebook. Photos downloaded from Facebook that have not been imported will be moved to the iPhoto trash unless you choose to import them.
QUESTIONS:
Is this going to remove the original, high res images or just the "Facebook Albums" I discovered today under the "WEB" menu in iPhoto's left sidebar?
Why would they still be preserved on FB? I don't want that either but if anything they should be preserved in their original location (iPhoto). NB: These are all pics I've taken on my iPhone and imported directly to iPhoto.
Re: "Photos downloaded from Facebook that have not been imported will be moved to the iPhoto trash unless you choose to import them." I don't want to download ANYTHING from FB. I already have the images in iPhoto. Will proceeding with the unsync create hundreds of duplicates?
Please help.

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