Don't click. It knows.

Facebook's new interface tracks nearly every movement a user makes while logged on, with only a few insignificant exceptions.

While many bashfully or boastfully claim to be addicts of the Web site, most are perturbed by the new look, if only because it points out the manic-like ways in which they update their profiles.

Whether you joined a group about how you may (or may not have) rushed the field at Ohio State, turned down an invitation to a birthday party (sorry buddy - heading to South Bend) or added The Babysitter Club anthology to the list of favorite books, everyone know each minute detail.

Facebook calls us on our eccentricities and trivializes us for them, making the changes the points of interest, not the people who make them.

One of the first changes I observed was a friend ending her Facebook relationship. Though I have not talked to this person in some time, it is probably all Facebook's fault.

The new layout seems destined to get couples into fights for no reasons, with potentially devastating results as it undermines the trust between the individuals.

Several scenarios seem inevitable.

"Why is that person in a bathing suit friending you and writing on your wall?"

Or worse: "Why are you friending him or her in the first place and writing on his/her wall?"

At least it was somewhat secretive before.

Check that. One thing remains private.

Facebook purgatory still exists, and it's the one thing I've longed to change. It doesn't tell you if your friend request has been rejected.

The purpose of the thing was to know who your friends are, and it's never fulfilled that mission. Imagine getting an e-mail about a friend update only to log on and see that somebody rejected your offer. Then you realize everybody knows.

That's what Facebook is all about.

While some deride the site as a home base for stalkers, people mistakenly believe that the problem with the new format is that it allows you to keep track of friends you don't care that much about with details you'd never care to know.

True, but there's more.

The problem lies in how it tracks your own path throughout the server. I was going to join a group dedicated to returning the old Facebook format, but I didn't. Why?

Because I was scared. I did not want to make it angry. I've needed it for too long.

One of my friends quit Facebook solely over the changes. If only I could go cold turkey.

No, instead I'll log in for the 27th time today, content at staring at the homepage and afraid to do anything else.