All of you Timeline holdouts: the holding out ends soon. “Over the next few weeks, everyone will get Timeline,” says Facebook. And by “will get,” they mean “must use”. Here we go!
Luckily, anyone who hasn’t already switched over to the megascrapbook will have a seven-day grace period to ease into it before their new, beautified, history-flush profile goes live. Take that time. Drink some tea. Have a hot soak. Breathe — because luckily, Timeline is pretty great. I’m predicting an all-time low in global OMG I HATE THIS Facebook redesign cheek-puffing. [Facebook via AllThingsD]
Sam D
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 8:31 AMA lot of people out there hate timeline, so there’s be a lot of OMG I HATE THIS. I personally love it, and hope that I can use it on my fan page too.
Nathan
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 8:46 AMMany of my friends are absolutely disgusted with Timeline and a few have closed their accounts and moved away to G+ or just into a social media hiatus. I have seen it, and I dont blame anyone for not wanting anything to do with it. It is invasive and ugly, not everyone wants to have that information up for all to see and a big fat cover photo on the page.
InformedGamer
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 9:06 AMA. Feel free to not upload a cover photo then?!
B. The information is already there, it’s simply making it easier to access
C. G+ is horrid and doesn’t allow (at least it didn’t when I gave it a try on release) private profiles..
Debunking your comment aside, Timeline was meant to go live in December, they’ve already pushed it back a month
Mitch
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 8:53 AMMy feed has been clogged up for weeks with people complaining about it… I don’t know why, I reckon it’s great!
light487
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 9:03 AMI don’t see what the problem is.. it looks a heck of a lot better than the old Facebook profile page did.. it’s a lot more customisable than before. It’s a lot more accessible than before.. people can add things in there on specific dates, which you can remove of course.. and the only people who can see your stuff are the same people who could see it before….
Facebook is a private/closed social network meaning that you select who can see your info, having to authorise them and give them access. Twitter on the other hand is a public/open social network where you don’t get to choose who sees your stuff, you can block them so you don’t need to see their spam but ultimately whatever you do on Twitter is open to everyone.. that’s not the case on Facebook, if you choose so..
Again.. you still get to choose who sees what.. that part hasn’t changed. If you really do still hate it, then leave.. can’t please all the people, all the time.
Glenn
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 9:20 AMWonder if Sam smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins? Or he doesn’t know Johnny Hopkins.
Steve
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 9:29 AMI dont use Facebook – and very glad for it. What a waste of time constantly combing through peoples profiles for useless information. Facebook addicts are like junkies!
Chris
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 11:26 AMDude, it sounds like you are the junkie. Have some control, its no ones fault but your own if that’s what you do on FB. Most people just use it as an expanded communication platform to keep up with their friends, I find it much easier to just Facebook someone instead of Texting them these days . Sounds like you are just a bit of a stalking freak if you ask me.
DENAz
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 2:27 PMYes… because that exactly what everyone uses facebook for…..
James Ray Cox
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 9:47 AMThe way I see it, facebook is for posting funny links and bullshit updates about yourself, while G+ is for publishing your own creative work, photos, videos, etc. It’s more like twitter and doesn’t serve as a facebook replacement, facebook is for friends. Nearly everyone in my G+ circles are not ‘friends’ they are interesting people who inspire me. I have discussions on G+ with strangers, facebook is for lols with your mates.
@InformedGamer There are no private profiles (i dont think) but you can turn everything exept your Name to be private.
Blake
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 9:50 AMThe timeline is an improvement over the old profile layout. Anyone complaining about more data being accessible clearly don’t understand that data was all already there and viewable if people wanted to look.
I expect a little bit of rage, but nowhere near as much as when they change the main feed. After all the feed is what most people look at, when they’re on a profile page chances are it’s someone else’s page and this just makes it easier to look through.
Spike62002
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 9:53 AMPersonally I don’t care – timeline is on my profile page and is something I rarely use – I spent most of my time on the news feed page not on my profile page
MDolley
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 10:41 AMWhat this guy said. I very rarely venture beyond the news feed, and when I do it’s to look at the profile of somebody that I just added as a friend. I never look at my own profile.
Chris
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 11:19 AMThe Timeline is the best improvement facebook has EVER made. It makes finding a post/link/photo/video on someones page so much easier… and isnt sharing content what facebook is for? why would people leave FB because they make it easier for everyone to share and find content, that is just retarded… the info was already there, now its just easier to find. Plus the design is 10000 times better than the old page.
DENAz
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 2:21 PMYeah, i’m not liking it either. Just don’t like the layout, and prefer it the way it is. Still… will have to adjust anyway
BrightNobleWoman
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 2:55 PMI have looked at Timeline, and don’t like it. If I had liked it I would have changed over to it. From what I can see of other people’s pages, it is not the way I wish to present myself.
I know of a few who have changed, most of those I know haven’t, and don’t want to.
The current design isn’t fabulous, but Timeline is NOT an improvement. Change for the sake of change is a waste of everybodies time, and puts backs up unneccessarily.
Virus__
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 3:04 PMOh luls, i’ll give you that =P
Sicarius123
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 5:32 PMI’ve hated a lot of facebook changes, but love timeline. Glad to see everyone will have it.
Now stop defaulting my feed to recommended and leave it at most recent!
Adam
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:40 AMNoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Argh. I may delete fb and head to google +. I dont have any annoying friends on there…
Steve
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 1:42 PMthis timeline will cater to the narcissists and attention whores even more, all the more reason to quit facebook and get away from all the bullshit and live life instead
Steven Brown
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