Today the popular social networking site Facebook released a substantial site overhaul that includes a reworking of some page layouts and — most importantly — a new Feeds feature that details various activities your friends perform. For example, you can see when somebody added someone else as their friend, when somebody changed their relationship status, when they tagged someone or themselves in a photo, exactly which part of their profile they just updated, and much more. Although I did cave in and get a Facebook account this summer, I still say that it’s way too easy for your personal information to become available to anybody if you don’t restrict your profile to friends (which I do).

If you use Facebook, check out the new features. Although definitely stalker-worthy, the new stuff is nonetheless technically impressive.

UPDATE: Apparently there’s been quite a bit of backlash over the new Feeds feature, with most people complaining that it makes finding out what people are doing too easy and that it clutters the interface. Bullcrap. First of all, it obeys all your privacy rules and it only contains information you could have dug up anyway, and second of all, you can click one little button and it will hide the panel from every profile you view, therefore making the interface “uncluttered.”

If you like, you can join the first group I’ve created on Facebook: Facebook feeds are cool, calm the hell down your privacy is the same.