Facebook: Making It Harder to Secretly Stalk Your High School Boyfriend

The Website's New Policy Could Eventually Clue Others in to Who You've Been Searching for on Facebook

We'll dispense with any discussions about all the ways too much time on Facebook searching for various people from your past is, shall we say, unproductive/unhealthy/obsessive/on the verge of stalking. We've all spent at least a few of our procrastination hours looking up exes, one-time crushes and high school foes whose lives, we pray, are not better than ours.

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But a newly activated Facebook feature is keeping track of all those searches and presenting them in your Activity Log.

"Starting today, in addition to your other activity, you'll be able to see the searches you're making on Facebook. Just as you can choose to delete any of your posts, you can use the same inline control on Activity Log to remove any of your searches at any time. It's important to remember that no one else can see your Activity Log, including your search activity," the Facebook announcement read, as reported by Jezebel.com.

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Alright, so Facebook's Activity Log will provide you with a private shaming of all the time you're spending looking at photos of that Applebee's waiter you were totally obsessing over three years ago. No worries … unless, of course, that Activity Log somehow becomes not so private, and your record of Facebook searches is accidentally displayed for all the world to see.

Jezebel.com also reports a rumor that some Facebook users' private messages were accidentally published on Timeline profiles recently. Facebook officials say that didn't happen, but actual Facebook users say it absolutely did, leaving everyone to wonder (panic?) that their very personal missives could somehow ending up in a Timeline.

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Bottom line: never forget just how much personal information you're entrusting a very large company to control. People make mistakes, and technology glitches, as we all know, are common, so none of us should feel 100 percent secure that anything we've written (supposedly) privately on Facebook or other social media sites will remain 100 percent secure.

Also, you should have just asked Applebee's dude out three years ago.

The Website's New Policy Could Eventually Clue Others in to Who You've Been Searching for on Facebook

We'll dispense with any discussions about all the ways too much time on Facebook searching for various people from your past is, shall we say, unproductive/unhealthy/obsessive/on the verge of stalking. We've all spent at least a few of our procrastination hours looking up exes, one-time crushes and high school foes whose lives, we pray, are not better than ours.

Read: New Study Reveals That Facebook Caused A Third Of Divorces In 2011

But a newly activated Facebook feature is keeping track of all those searches and presenting them in your Activity Log.

"Starting today, in addition to your other activity, you'll be able to see the searches you're making on Facebook. Just as you can choose to delete any of your posts, you can use the same inline control on Activity Log to remove any of your searches at any time. It's important to remember that no one else can see your Activity Log, including your search activity," the Facebook announcement read, as reported by Jezebel.com.

Read: 6 Controversial Photos Banned By Facebook

Alright, so Facebook's Activity Log will provide you with a private shaming of all the time you're spending looking at photos of that Applebee's waiter you were totally obsessing over three years ago. No worries … unless, of course, that Activity Log somehow becomes not so private, and your record of Facebook searches is accidentally displayed for all the world to see.

Jezebel.com also reports a rumor that some Facebook users' private messages were accidentally published on Timeline profiles recently. Facebook officials say that didn't happen, but actual Facebook users say it absolutely did, leaving everyone to wonder (panic?) that their very personal missives could somehow ending up in a Timeline.

Read: Thousands Crash Girl's Sweet 16 Party After Facebook Invite Goes Viral

Bottom line: never forget just how much personal information you're entrusting a very large company to control. People make mistakes, and technology glitches, as we all know, are common, so none of us should feel 100 percent secure that anything we've written (supposedly) privately on Facebook or other social media sites will remain 100 percent secure.

Also, you should have just asked Applebee's dude out three years ago.