How to disable my address book card changing my user picture

So here are the facts:
The Facebook app on my iPhone syncs Facebook friends' contact info (including photos) to my iCloud address book, including my own contact. My user profile on my Mac has been assigned a 'card' in my Address Book, the card being the contact (me) whose photo is synced with Facebook.
I have now discovered that whatever I manually change my user photo to (Prefences > Users and Groups > My username > Photo) is always replaced by my Facebook profile picture, due to iCloud and everything being synced up.
Therefore, the question which I think would solve my problem in the least distruptive way, is:
How do I stop my Mac account being linked to a 'card' in my Address Book?
I could then keep all my contacts photos, including my own, in my address book but still be able to manually set a user photo, as I would like to
Any answers or better work-arounds would be appreciated.
Lewis

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