Someone built a Facebook timeline with the life of Steve Jobs. It’s quite nice to go through it and look at his life in this format, rather than having to suffer through Isaacson’s rushed out prose.
It is actually a great idea that I want to see more: build timelines of famous dead people in Facebook. I can imagine the same for everyone, from politicians like FDR or Winston Churchill to scientists like Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton to actors like Paul Newman and Humphrey Bogart. It would be great way to try to teach some history. You know. For kids!
In fact, Facebook should make these officially and call them Facebook’s Historical Bios or something like that.
This one is not going to last long, I’m sure, so go through it while it lasts. [Facebook]
Update: It’s down.
Update 2: It’s up.
Update 3: Video capture added just in case they take it down again.
Kate
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 9:23 AMNot a good idea I dont think. Perhaps these people do not want to be on Facebook? Jobs was a private individual I doubt he would awnt information splashed around like that. For the people too lazy to read the book or research about their lives because they know nothing other than Facebook – well, they need to get an education. Facebook is making people lazy and too reliant on instant gratification.
Inform
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 10:24 AMYou 100% joking right?
This information is already “splashed around”. Google Search “steve jobs + history” and take a look for yourself. Or even better throw his name into Wikipedia. (or would that mean you would “need to get an education”) What makes it being on Facebook any different?
For the record, saying people are ‘lazy’ for looking at this stuff on the web/technology rather than reading it in a book is obsurb and rather ignorant of you.
Especially when your comment is based on the worlds most inovative person on our time (Steve) who responsible for most of the technological advances we see right now. So either go back to your pen, paper and books for your reaserch or quite grabbing at straws to put down the younger generation.
Lesson One: Facbooks here and staying – using it is not lazy, nor stupid and people using it dont “need and education”. No-ones forcing you to have an account.
Leson Two: Remembering someone, as you are yourself – by reading a book, is no different to reading about him online – if you really cared it would make you smile a little to see that people appreciate him in a new way.
Lesson Three: Try and dissern what “private information” is – the fact that people knew some if not all the information in the vid before he died purely by reading tabloids and watching interveiws proves there was nothing “juicy” about it.
:)