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Alright, listen up you facebook luddites (look that word up if you don’t know what it means, you’re in college for chrissake), and read this article:

If you are too lazy, like I am, here are the important parts:

No new information is being made available about users. Facebook privacy settings remain in their previous state, meaning you can have your information available throughout the network or just among your closest friends. Don’t want a particular piece of information to be syndicated out even to them? Remove any single piece of data by simply clicking the “x” button next to it and it will not appear in the news feed.

If this feature had been part Facebook since the beginning, their users would be screaming if Facebook tried to remove it. It’s a powerful way to quickly get lots of information about people you care about, with easy settings to remove that information for privacy reasons. No one can see anything that they couldn’t see yesterday. It’s just being distributed more efficiently.

See? Remove what you don’t want people to see. They could always see it anyway. I’m sure you just don’t like the change, but hey, change is good. In 6 months, you’ll get used to it, and probably even rely on it. That whole “New Facebook Stuff Sucks” group or whatever is full of people who, in 50 years, will likely be chasing kids off their lawns and harkening back to the “good old days” when people listened to “Real Music” like Ashlee Simpson and when websites were hard to use, but you liked it that way.

Grow up tards.