Since Facebooks’ latest update back on December 9th, many of us have been wondering how we can stop the ‘Joe is now friends with Jack’ messages that have re-flooded our walls. After the October update we were able to stop these message via our Privacy settings, but they have now all reappeared.

In a nutshell – we can no longer remove them…

The latest pass-it-around-rumor to hit all of our walls is something similar to:

If you are tired of seeing who becomes friends with who… go to Settings, Privacy, Profile Info, Family & Relationships, Customize and Pick ONLY ME.. everyone will not be able to see who you become friends with. WE NEED TO KEEP POSTING THIS SO PEOPLE WILL SEE IT & DO IT!!!

Unfortunately, with the latest Facebook Privacy update, we no longer have control over a number of details in our accounts. The instructions above DO NOT stop these messages from posting. They only stop people from seeing the Family Members, Relationship Status, Interested In, and Looking For sections of your visible profile.

According to Facebooks’ Privacy Policy:

As you can see, we are no longer able to control our friends details.

Also, if you follow the instructions provided in the rumor above, at the top of the Privacy -> Profile Settings page you will see the message:

You cannot completely turn off recent activity stories anymore. However, if you want to remove a particular story that currently shows up, simply click the “Remove” button that appears to the right of the story after you move your mouse over it.

We know this new policy, along with the automatic posting of every Page we join, has millions of Facebook users extremely frustrated.

The showing of all Pages we belong to is directly connected with Facebook’s push to bring in new Brand name advertisers. These advertisers are more apt to create a Fan Page on Facebook, knowing that visual “word of mouth” marketing is in place.

However, why we need to see who became friends with who is still unknown…