Facebook, facebook, facebook. So as I’m sure all of us have discovered, our favorite social-networking tool and relationship-affirmer* now has an added chat feature. At first, I was a giant skeptic about if it would be useful, but then I fell in love with it. Its cool that the chat windows stays docked, so now multi-tasking is even EASIER than it once was. No more switching windows to go between AIM and gchat. I can even chat while playing annihilating my opponents at scrabulous, scramble, or attack.

There is, however, one major drawback that causes me to feel some trepidation toward this new addition to facebook: 

Facebook is now MORE STALK-TASTIC THAN EVER.

The omipresent spectre that is the newsfeed has worked its way in to facebook chat. Depending on your privacy settings regarding the newsfeed, your actions (commenting on photos or writing on friends walls) shows up directly in the chat window.

Here’s a fun experiment:

1) Initiate a chat session with your favorite classmate or long-lost elementary, jr. high, or high school friend.

2) Write on someone’s wall. A friend with a publicly viewable profile works best.

3) Laugh your head off (or recoil in horror) as your friend stalks you and an unwilling third party.

4) Go fix your privacy settings so it doesn’t happen again.

Happy Facebook chatting!

-K

*thanks, Morgan for posting this article and making me aware that if it doesn’t say so on facebook, then its not really dating.