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(Unverified)Sep 7th 2006 4:44PM

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I have major problems with the newsfeed.

Indeed, all of the privacy settings have stayed the same. But there's a difference between someone noticing a few a changes in your profile to every single adjustment being timestamped and broadcast to everyone you know. It's the difference between making a joke to a friend that you don't mind other people hearing and calling all of your friends and screaming "HEY, LISTEN TO THIS!!!"

I had a friend who was in a relationship and switched her profile to "single." Instead of people organically noticing the adjustment over time, it was smack dab on everyone's homepage this morning and her wall was bombarded with questions and comments.

Voyeurism is expected, but Facebook should at least make it a challenge.

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