New Issue Disable "Profile Posts" on member profiles

A new issue that has not yet been assigned a status
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Joined 2013
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Looking at the "Members -> New Profile Posts" it seems that quite a few users are confusing the Profile Post with Direct Messages. After looking a few times I see posts that some people might find slightly embarassing if they knew it was public. (I won't link it to avoid further exacerbating the problem). I guess the purpose of "Profile Posts" is equivalent to a Facebook "Wall", but it doesn't seem to be used as such, and this community doesn't really seem to be the type to do that sort of thing.

So to avoid possible confusion and future embarassment when a message you thought was private is actually public, perhaps this feature should be disabled?