Facebook allows you to snoop on your mates

A NEW FEATURE on the social networking site Facebook has got users mightily miffed.

A new tool shows the changes that your friends have made to their personal records and sticks them on a news feed page.

The effect is that you can tell if a friend is no longer single and has completely lost interest in collecting rocks that look like the secretary general of the UN.

Users on the other hand are extremely miffed and according to several blogs fear that Facebook is getting creepy. While it is true that users have had the information prominently displayed on their home pages for ages, it is the first time that is actually getting pushed to other users screens.

A photo comment used to be technically public but still a quiet act akin to putting a note on someone's dorm-room door. Now it is more of a bulletin, a public declaration for all to see — something like nailing it to the door of the dining hall, one user moaned.

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