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Today Facebook began rolling out a new feature that lets you see a history of everything you've searched for on the social network. A list of search queries now appears intermingled with all the Likes, comments, and wall posts that appear inside the Activity Log — a private section of your profile that only you can view. via Facebook now saves all your searches to your private Activity Log
Facebook's new Activity Log could give some of its advertisers access to EVERYTHING personal that it stores about you in its archives.
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In a stealthy move that's bound to lead to a backlash, Facebook surprised its 901 million users with a gift ie. a @facebook.com email address is now displaying by default on their Timelines. Users who don't like the change can click the "about" link in their profile and then click the "edit" button next to their contact information to hide their @facebook.com email address from their timeline.
Check out FB's latest arbitrary move. TimeThief explains how to get control back (again) by hiding the @facebook.com default email address from our timelines.
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- Facebook faces backlash over change to users' email addresses (vancouversun.com)
- Facebook users fuming over email switch; how to switch it back (blogs.vancouversun.com)
- Facebook's email switch riles users (cbc.ca)
- Facebook draws user ire with email switcheroo (bostonherald.com)
