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Ah, Memories: Facebook Hones History Tool

Judging by a leaked prototype, Facebook is developing new service dubbed Memories, which lets users browse prior site activity. "Memories utilizes a navigation bar to lets user jump between years and view counts of each year's status updates, added friends, Likes, and Events," reports Inside Facebook.

"Details on the product are scarce since it was only up for a few minutes, but we also know a link to a user's check-ins was temporarily available." The would-be service is in line with increasing efforts by Facebook to better organize the vast amounts of data that users upload to the site. "As many Facebook users have now been members for a long time and have built up lots of content and connections, innovative ways to browse this content are both satisfying to users and a good way to increase time-on-site," notes Inside Facebook. In another example, Facebook recently launched Friendship Pages, which display all the mutual content and connections between two friends.

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