> basically no reason Basically no reason? Am I the only one who thinks that there is an elephant in the room here? Let's face it, the breakup notifier was cr

> basically no reason Basically no reason? Am I the only one who thinks that there is an elephant in the room here? Let's face it, the breakup notifier was creepy and had privacy implications. Facebook gets slammed a lot for privacy (or the lack of it, or the difficult of the controls, etc). How would an average girl feel about using Facebook while in a stable relationship if she knew that people were using breakup notifier on her? How would this go down in the press? Could this dissuade people from publishing their relationship status on Facebook, thus removing valuable demographic information for advertisers? Is this even ethical? If you were running Facebook and were worried about this, what would you do? Not everything is black and white. Lawyering in the TOS is fine, but if you don't find anything in there, that doesn't mean that it's automatically OK. Facebook might not have specifically provided a reason, but it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. It doesn't matter if the raw information was available already; it's what people can do with it that makes the difference. On the other hand, a crush notifier is "opt-in"; nothing happens without reciprocation. I can see why they may be less bothered about that.