Posted on 01/25/2012 6:51:34 PM PST by martin_fierro
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find.
Timeline is essentially a scrapbook of your whole life on Facebook, compared with a snapshot of you today found on Facebook's traditional profile page. Once activated, Timeline replaces the current profile.
Although some people have already voluntarily switched to Timeline, Facebook hadn't made that mandatory. Beginning Tuesday, Facebook is telling some users that they have seven days to clean up their profiles before Timeline gets automatically activated. Facebook is rolling out the requirement to others over the next few weeks.
At some point, even those who haven't logged on to Facebook in a while will be automatically switched.
Timeline doesn't expose anything that wasn't available for sharing in the past. Many of those older posts had always been available. People could get to them by continually hitting "Older Posts," although most wouldn't have bothered. Timeline allows people to jump to the older material more quickly.
Timeline also doesn't necessarily reflect the fact that your circle of friends has likely expanded in recent years. A party photo you posted in 2008 to a small group of friends would be more visible to relatives, bosses and others you may have added as friends since then.
You'll have a week to curate the Timeline by moving stuff around, hiding photos or featuring them more prominently on your page.
Some things to consider:
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I like certain things about Facebook, but other things not so much. I’ve got some FReepers on there so that’s kind of fun to see their posts: jokes and stories about Obama and company. I’ve also signed up with several conservative groups so I get information that way as well as on FR. A lot of it is narcissist central though. A few “me monsters” on there. I’ve been slowly getting away from it to some degree. Just not interested in it as much. It’s gotten pretty boring and I do wonder about the information on there and how it is shared.
Talk about much ado about nothing ...
If one hadn’t posted it previously, it would not, uh, be there in the first place.
At the bottom of everyone’s profile has been a link to older posts, if folks are that highly motivated to see it, they already can.
When are the slaves in the country going to see what is going on? When are we going to rise up in armed revolt against our masters that have perverted the Constitution and destroyed our liberty?
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What does this diatribe have to do with FB?
Nothing. If you dont like it, move on. But I’ll post whatever I like!
You choose what to put on Facebook. Nobody forces you to reveal anything. You are perfectly capable of using Facebook without giving away your secrets.
Nothing. If you dont like it, move on. But I’ll post whatever I like!
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Hilarious. Me, too, I’ll also post whatever I like.
See how that works?
Well if there is anything fishey going on at least I got my say about Obama the Commie, and his cronies.
Yes I do. And I’ll get the last word.
I agree. I have a cousin who lives in New Zealand, and if wasn’t for FB, I would have absolutely no contact with her.
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