UPDATE: The following steps worked for a little less than a week. Then Facebook yanked the rights. It is still true that you cannot disable Facebook recent activity.

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As recently as January you could not turn off recent activity in Facebook. So if you commented on Billy’s wall, or liked Linda’s Flower Shop, or became friends with Jim Joyce, you got a nice ugly line on your wall that you had to remove one by one to rid yourself of embarassment. To make matters worse, recent activity included information to people that you may have b-listed or pseudo-blocked. So say you blocked Jane, and John wrote on your wall. Jane can’t see your wall because she’s not on the a-list, but John’s recent activity claims your wall is active. So now Jane confronts you (weird) and you have to explain to Jane that you a) blocked her and/or b) hate Facebook. Freaking awkward man.

After plenty of complaining and plenty of members flat out disabling their Facebook accounts over privacy issues, FB seems to have turned over a new leaf. Yes, friends, I’ve turned off Facebook recent activity. And here’s how you do it…

Step 1: Log-in To Facebook

Step 2: Go to the Account pulldown in the top right corner and click Application Settings.

Step 3: Click “Edit Settings” for Facebook

Step 4: Uncheck The Box and Hit “Okay”

Voila! Thanks, Facebook.  Now stop being evil.