Facebook's Timeline

[Pianomanfreak]

Okay guys since people are going to be complaining about this next week on facebook since knowing that they will. What are your thoughts and opinions about facebook's timeline?

[Justin]

Well, it's nice that they are utilizing dates you can attach to your photos, videos and posts. Previously, there was some chaos in ordering all of your stuff.

However, I reckon a few missed opportunities. If you add media, which is dated from the past, one cannot see this at the top of your 'timeline', since you have to click on the appropriate time frame first. So if I post a photo from 2001, people cannot see this on my wall, until they scroll/click to 2001.

A nice feature is that by default, all locations will be shown in a map, whether it is an event, a photo, or anything else that is geocoded.

However, I have the feeling it is a bit too overwhelmed --> besides, Facebook has been updating their layout a dozen of times in the last two years, which certainly isn't user friendly in my opinion...

[Faceless]

Not a big problem for me. I got used to my friends timelines and found it much easier and faster to look back at classic status updates and other fun times. So the timeline made me first go    but after a short while I was  .

[Xeno]

Don't really care. I actually enjoyed going back and reading all the crap I posted.

The only annoyance is having to see people complain about it until they finally decide to deal with it.

[CuCuKM]

Best part about it all?

They gave us plenty of warning about it... rather than making it an all of a sudden detail.

Which is why I switched to it as soon as I heard it was a legit feature, though was mildly unimpressed, it was less a bother to keep it than to remove it.
Not like I really use Facebook enough to care.
It has its uses, but its primary use has been out lived.

I still have my basic sharing capability and quite frankly I don't need that as it is. It is just as easy to copy/paste the link as it is to share in my opinion.

That this is thread worthy is a bit surprising to me, but alas, enough people use it for it to be a deal.
I'm just glad I don't hear about Twitter updating like it's all the buzz.
I presume it goes through notable changes as well... despite its simple structure.

[Doom]

>Facebook is a free service
>2012
>Complaining about something that costs NOTHING
I seriously hope none of you guys here do this, otherwise I may have to go back in time and kill you before you get a Facebook account.

[The Master Chief]

>Facebook is a free service
>2012
>Complaining about something that costs NOTHING
I seriously hope none of you guys here do this, otherwise I may have to go back in time and kill you before you get a Facebook account.

Oh hush, just because it's free doesn't mean we shouldn't be permitted to voice our opinions. Also let's not forget that Facebook makes millions off of advertising which is solely because we're clicking away at it. And no greentexting on GSR! :p

The timeline layout is annoying and I think its a poopy idea. I'd rather keep my simple wall design. There is such a thing as too many features and the page looks cluttered. So for those of us who don't want our wall or timeline or w/e it's called to look like a steaming pile of ###, we may jump ship to google+. Provided it doesn't suck.

[President Ragnarok]

It's only a matter of time before I make a particularly satisfying poop into a "life event."

[hippielama]

i've done that at least thrice

[The Abominator]

I don't even have Facebook.

[Eenexe]

I like the timeline, it looks better, it takes use of some more advanced JavaScript/HTML5 and I think it's easier to find stuff (and/or stalk people).

So for those of us who don't want our wall or timeline or w/e it's called to look like a steaming pile of ###, we may jump ship to google+. Provided it doesn't suck.

Everybody should jump over to Google+ in my opinion.

[}Schiavo{]

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Me: how does timeline work then?   

Her: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/how-to-enable-facebook-timeline/
http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline

M: I have to enable it? Oh thank god, i thought it was one of those automatic-reformats they do, no way i'm turning that ### on

H: My Timeline works, but it has a ### ton of bugs: a lot of things that I keep asking it to hide never actually do, it keeps updating people with things from years past, LOL THE MAP FEATURE HAS DECIDED NEW ORLEANS DOESN'T EXIST FOR ME, half of the time the Map feature just plain ### up in a variety of ways, the way it displays highlighted stories from years past is just annoying, and don't bother trying to put in "places you've lived" because it makes your profile look like ### if you do.   

M: i just really, really hate the way facebook goes about privacy. this is a really cool idea, but it's such a radical shift in the presentation of your personal information, and it's something a lot of people (myself included) wouldn't want. rather than eventually forcing the change, why don't they just make it a secondary profile feature? and it's not like you can just stop using facebook - eventually, it becomes necessary for a lot of things, beyond "socializing" with "friends". blearghamurph.

H: YES. My Facebook is very much *not* about friendships at this point. Have you taken the time to go through all of your FB and anything else online to "clean up" your online persona/anything attached to your name? It's taken me a long, long, long time but I think I have *most* undesirable things deleted now, but I still want to take the time to go through the last 5+ years of my FB use to double-check everything again. It just takes forever. But to highlight how important it is to have a clean internet presence, my job asked for all of my social networking profiles. As in, asked for their exact links. And the next project application I'll be doing as part of said job will give them even more access into my personal life... and I've been on conference calls with people that you would expect to NEVER talk about something as "trivial" as Facebook, and then asked to "like" a number of different projects, acts, and services on it. WHILE ON THE CALL, all Katt Williams style "Go on, I'll wait." The 21st century is so weird.

I'm a bit more sympathetic to idea now, but that's pretty much where I'm coming from: It transcends "Omg they changed it now it sucks". It's annoying, it's intrusive, and it exaggerates FB's already crap privacy controls... but in doing so, it makes your FB easier to clean up. Which becomes especially important when you have potential employers sniffing around your profile.

It's ugly, but I'll get over it, and so will you.

[Stapey]

People that pay realm money to the site can ### all they want. People using it for free should stop ranging. I don't like it but I guess I'll get used to it, just like everyone with every Facebook update.

[Renny]

[Crystallux]

I don't like the new layout because it does seem too cluttered, but I guess I'll get used to it eventually .