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Your Facebook search history is a thing of nightmares

Here’s how to get rid of it.

Mar 1st 2014, 4:35 PM 7,891 Views 2 Comments

THERE’S BEEN A bit of hoo-ha over Facebook’s privacy policies and speculation over how they’re going to use your WhatsApp! data. But listen sure, you’ve bigger fish to fry.

So you’re a massive stalker and you spend hours searching for people you vaguely know?

Nobody will see, it’s grand, right?

WRONG.

Facebook keeps track of it all. Every. Single. Search.

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Prepare for the worst… select activity log

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Head to the sneaky sidebar

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Dubiously select ‘search’

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Take a long hard look at yourself

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But worry not. You can clear this filth from your life. Simply click the Clear Searches option in the right-hand corner and sleep a bit easier tonight

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Hallelujah, indeed. AND, a new first port of call if someone leaves their Facebook signed in now instead of a status saying they’ve wet themselves.

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Your Facebook search history is a thing of nightmares

Here’s how to get rid of it.

Facebook keeps track of it all. Every. Single. Search.