Thoughts on Facebooks timeline function...

[remphish1]

I have not seen it yet but I hear it is rolling out this week. I use facebook and I am usually amuzed wasting time on facebook but the idea of the timeline function gives me the creeps...I think it is a little too personal. Maybe I am paranoid but I don't believe everyone needs a timeline of my life as I don't need one of yours.... Yes I know only post stuff that you are comfortable with and I do...anyway I think it may be time for me to pull the plug on fb? Anyone else feel the same?

 

On another note I heard insurance companies are spying on people on facebook, etc to get social media scores which may influence insurance premiums....hoy boy!

[howdjadoo]

Never ever no FB and the alike for me,prefer to say Mr. Anonymous on the net

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jcroach]

I have one friend who's enabled the timeline. It's nothing to be worried about really. It's just a re-branding of their profile pages with an added feature to let you archive actions easier and find past actions easier.

 

https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline

[Queen Amaranthine]

I don't know how I feel about it yet. I can say, though, that I have extremely mixed feelings about FB as a whole.

 

On the positive, I like keeping in touch with friends that I wouldn't ordinarily find time or a venue to stay in touch with. That alone is worth it. Yet I am also surprised by how many of my friends and family aren't in FB.

 

However, FB doesn't allow for in-depth conversation (that factor, in contrast, is a plus here in VC). FB feels like soundbites. I don't find it terribly intuitive/user friendly, either. I want it to do things in ways it's not set up to do. I want privacy settings to be simpler to use; I find myself wondering if it is all working properly or whether something will suddenly be changed, or whether I miss a memo about it.

 

Also, I want all of my friend and family news to be on one wall, then a separate wall within my same account for "liked" pages such as music, entertainment, career-related, health, etc. etc. In fact, I have 2 FB accounts for that reason--one for family & friends and another totally separate one for the rest. It's weird, I know, but that's me. Kind of funny, the 2 accounts invite me to friend myself. The one that is just for "like" pages keeps insisting I add friends, as though I am so pathetic as to have no social life and FB will rescue me from the loneliness it thinks is my life.

 

But maybe it's all just me. Alert: user error! User cynicism!