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@Armen Petrosian
I wouldn't mind a "Limit Timeline to past X years" privacy setting.
@Evan Huck
Yea... 2008 was fine... But 2006...that's just ridiculous /s
@Martin Guindon
à lire...
@Benjamin Nguyen
It's your own fault for posting something stupid on Facebook Just sayin'.
@Jessica Peck Williams
and if you worry about your future boss or about your mom seeing something then don't friend them!
@Benjamin Nguyen
@[516885792:2048:Jessica Peck Williams] Facebook's not that hard guys.
@Jessica Peck Williams
i know, right?
@Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Not quite. 1. What looks fine one year when it's being posted to just your friends can reflect poorly on you five years later when it's being posted publicly. 2. Facebook's privacy settings have changed over the years. Several years ago, privacy settings have changed over the years. What wasn't accessible from someone's profile (without being their friend) is now easily accessible to anyone who browses to their page. 3. Just because "it's your own fault" doesn't mean that Facebook shouldn't be cautious about what the penalty for doing so is.
@Checks Balances
Benjamin Nguyen The problem is not that it's too hard. The problem is that its ease of use is taken for granted. And when you take something for granted, you "easily" overlook the good or the bad.
@James K. Ford
Benjamin Nguyen my thought exactly.
@Benjamin Nguyen
Gayle Laakmann McDowell - Not quite. 1. When does this ever apply? If it reflects poorly on you five years down the road, it probably reflects poorly on you now, you just haven't made it public yet to receive the shame. Don't post something on Facebook if you're not willing to say it publicly. 2. This doesn't change Facebook privacy. It just goes further back in time. 3. They ARE being cautious. 7-Day preview. How much more do you expect?
@Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Benjamin Nguyen : 1. Examples: (A) Pictures drinking in college. Fine when you're in college, but maybe don't reflect a professional image of yourself. (B) Couple breaks up, both date other people, and then later get back together. Pictures "from the break" are now suddenly super easily accessible. (C) The way that someone chooses to present themselves has changed. For example, someone previously had hot pink hair with several lip pierces. That didn't reflect poorly on them then because, well, that's who they are. Now they work in a client-facing role and have "cleaned up" their image. 2. Not entirely true. The meaning of "public" has changed. There were several pictures on my Facebook profile that were NOT accessible to people who weren't my friends - the "photos" link didn't even work. Now that I've enabled timeline, a bunch of previously hidden photos are now public to anyone who goes to my profile. 3. Here are some ways Facebook could be more "cautious:" -- (A) If you enable it now, you're not exactly encouraged to review your timeline before publishing. So, they could encourage that more. The "7 Day Preview" is only when they FORCE a switch. -- (B) Facebook could offer a way of "unpublishing" timeline (for now, anyway). I don't think they do. -- (C) Facebook could show a selection of items from each of the prior years, so that you know what you're getting into. -- (D) Facebook could offer a way to hide everything from a previous year. -- (E) Facebook could make it clearer what's public and what's not. Right now, it's really quite hard for people to view their profile as "public." (It's there, but hard to find.) They should probably make that much more easily accessible. -- (F) Facebook could make the difference between "highlights" from a year and the entire year clearer. I suspect that many less tech-savvy users won't even notice the "show all" button and won't realize what exactly is shown. For what it's worth, I'm a software engineer myself (ex-Google, Microsoft, Apple) and *very* tech savvy. I'm also generally cautious about what is exposed publicly on my profile since I have a good number of subscribers. I spent well over and hour trying to clean up my *public* timeline. Some stuff I *still* can't get deleted from my public timeline - even though it's set to be shown to "only me" (that's probably just a bug, but either way... not good). And that's just the public stuff. The friends-only timeline... ugh. That'll take forever.
@Todd Bloom
Gayle Laakmann McDowell Things in your timeline are still controlled by individual posting permissions….
@Benjamin Nguyen
Gayle Laakmann McDowell, oh man your response is so long. No wonder your Facebook is so complicated. (PS: I've never worked in a tech company, and my Facebook is just fine). Again, your fault for taking those photos. Just don't post them. Don't get tagged in them. It's not that hard. "Oh I have to hide this from these people and these photos from those people and these comments from these people". Live one life, not 6. Keep it simple stupid.
@Randall Brown
Did Facebook previously limit how far back you could go on someone's wall?
@Pedram Keyani
No, you can always go to a person's wall and scroll down and down and down and information keeps loading. Timeline just makes it easier to see and organizes it in a way that makes more sense.
@Austin Nooe
Pedram Keyani "Facebook, making stalking others easier since 2004."
@Paul Mestemaker
No... it was just rather difficult to go back in time because you'd have to hit "Older posts" about 100 times to go back 1-2 years. Now it is incredibly easy to navigate back in time and see what happened many years ago.
@Pedram Keyani
Austin Nooe there will always be a positive and negative way to look at any technology. I like knowing more about my friends and sharing mor about myself with them because it gives us more to talk about and strengthens our bonds.
@Genio Crane
I will always check my words before publishing.
@Marty Soupcoff
Dear Facebook Timeline, Thank you for reminding me the date of my birthday at the beginning of my timeline. Without it I would have totally forgot. Sincerely, Marty P.S. I wish I would have posted about that time I went to In-N-Out Burger in 2007. Man was that a good double-double. I wish I could relive it on Facebook.
@Jonathan Wolfson
You can control the visibility of the posts in the timeline to only your friends.
@Brian Jungman
I am looking! I activated it for myself today, and plan on doing some serious reviewing over the next week before publishing.
@Peter Knudson
Wait - how do I review my content? How is this different than with my standard profile. This article told me NOTHING. Please advise.
@Shayne Train
Open the timeline, open year-by-year :-( and go through the posts. You can hover over at the right-hand side and get the pencil icon, click on that, then Hide or Delete what you don't want others looking at.
@Serge Bronstein
timeline is great but they changed how the profile page looks, and I am NOT liking the new profile layout! it's in disarray and now you can add a background? can you say, myspace.
@Julian Hugh
Hey leave it to Facebook, they are very innovative at copying others. Myspace copied Friendster, Mark Zuckerberg copied the twins idea......Facebook copied Myspace. See the patterns?
@Matthew Zahm
I've found that anytime I actually attempt to remove anything from my Timeline it just highlights the X but never actually deletes the content, making it pretty damn difficult to remove anything.
@Edmund Rojas
ohhhhh yeah! nice and creepy yeah!
@Elin Blesener
Looking back, apparently I posted things like, "Elin is really excited to go camping. She has her tent ready and everything." Ya.. embarrassing lol. It's pretty funny to see how everything has changed though.
@Ayaz AJ
TimeLine Is For A Change Good..................... U Smarty Pants Mark E. Zuckerberg
@Nadav Ben-Haim
This timeline change, in addition to facebook not allowing me to manage comments I've made on my wall *AND* on other people's wall in an easy and intuitive way, caused me to delete my old facebook account I had since they first came out and recreate it so I can manage it better.
@Todd Bloom
How can you not manage comments? Click on the drop down and hit delete post or click on the status and then click on the 'X' to delete a comment.
@Ed Hankin
"Limit the Audience for Past Posts" is in settings but it seems a bit clumsy.
@Shouwu Hou
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@Joshua Webb
Timeline is the stupidest shit there is all you people one day are going to be facebook lol only Facebook you come up with the stupidest shit and get away with it that why my profile is a big piss on facebook lol.
@Sanchit Wadhwa
Everything is fine, but my question is how do you actually get rid of timeline? Anyone please let me know. TimeLine just makes Facebook ugly..
@Andreas Vichr
I cannot understand that you can edit the date of a life event story in the timeline but not the content of any story itself. So you are stuck with typos forever. If the Timeline should be something like your life blog this is unacceptable IMHO. More criticism here. https://plus.google.com/103510189176184025105/posts/XMTqWArjL2j
@Justus Harris O
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@Toni Manolache
Get your Facebook cover photo from fCoverPhotos.com.
@Tomáš Růžička
and don't forget to upload your own here on ProfileLift.com http://bit.ly/vKI9lZ ;)
@William Franklin
Everyone is on Facebook, it's the place that everyone goes to get their game fix, their OMG fix and everything else.
@Andreas Beer
I didn't. why? because I know since I first joined the internet more than 15 years ago, that this is a post-privacy world for digital content. if data is online, you can't protect it anymore. get over it.
@Jenny Worsley
Err.....'things you posted long ago that you might not want people to see' : If you didn't want people to see it, it wouldn't be posted on Facebook......jeez: trying to make a privacy story out of nothing. Actually oh no! I totally forgot about 'Completely Nude and rude all the time 2007' quick!
@Will Steward
The decisions someone makes when they're 16, could potentially bite them in the ass when they're 30 with timeline. When you're 16 and posting a status on facebook, you're not thinking about the future implications. You're thinking about the problems a 16 year old has.
@Cornel Ot
spent half hour but it worth. now my timeline is totally white..
@Martin Labuschin
yeah, congrats on understanding facebook
@Todd Bloom
Pretty sure if you have things posted that you didn't want people to see it doesn't matter since they've probably already seen it...
@Harmony Wilkins
What bothers me is that something you've said 3 years ago on a facebook post would be held against you at work. Facebook is your personal life, and unless you've posted something that is relevant to work (like that one guy calling out because a relative died and then posting pictures online of some drunken rave he went to instead of work), then it should not be called into question. You want to have a friday night out with the girls, get stupid, and post ridiculous pictures to prove how stupid you were - then fine. If you engaged in 4 years of debauchery and sin while in college, that shouldn't matter as long as you did nothing illegal and you kept your grades up and were involved in resume-worthy extra-curriculars. But if your employer (or your mom) questions it, then it's none of their business. As for your little brother asking about getting high -tell him no, it's not fun. that only uncreative people or cowards get high and that at that time, you were both. Tell him that it's not worth the trouble or the hassle. But simply stating "don't post it" is stupid. Part of the beauty of Facebook is that you can sort of uncensor yourself and be real with your friends. Out of context, anything can reflect terribly on you. Just be sure to set your profile to super-secret though and check the privacy settings every couple of months to ensure that nothing's been adjusted. Friend only people who are your actual friends. And leave the gory details to text or (Gasp!) email or a phone call (double gasp!).
@Marco Felici
I don't give two shits about showing on my profile all my freakin' post. I can't even select all of 'em to be hidden, I have to select EACH AND EVERY fuckin' item. Facebook, are you fucking kidding me? Worst product ever. You better allow us to remove Timeline and restore the old one, or prepare for user backlash.
@Tundey Akinsanya
All of the problems you highlight can be attributed to misuse of Facebook. If you're going to post pictures of you binge drinking, then you had better not friend your boss on Facebook. Unless that boss is also a personal friend and understands context (i.e. the difference by the way Friday nights and monday morning). And if you've made your profile public, then you're are moron for posting embarrassing things on it. You wouldn't email pictures of your debauchery to the entire world, would you? So why would you post them on Facebook when you know your profile is public? Don't blame Facebook because a prospective employer found your pictures/posts on Facebook since you made them public. Only issue I have with Facebook is when they adopt a opt-out policy for new features that impact privacy.
@Brendant T Millert
I love how everyone commenting has never made mistakes before. You guys are so cool.
@Samson Ogunsola
Check my TIMELINE! I've got Homer Simpson :D
@Javier GA Silva
Hi Facebook - Why is there no option to show JUST Yearly Highlights to Friends, instead of showing every single post from every month, for every year I have been on Facebook - and then manually having to 'hide from timeline' what I can only imagine is going to be around 1.2million things?
@Blake Corcoran
It would be nice if I could actually have the update available to complain about.
@Shayne Train
I decided to hide when I added friends. Sometimes I can hide, sometimes the edit function shows "None" meaning no action available. Bug?
@Jessica Skelton
Editing your timeline is a necessary evil -- especially for those of us who joined Facebook in the old school days, when it was just for college kids. Makes you remember that if you put things out into the web that you should (need to) be careful: you never know when it'll resurface to bite you in the a**.
@Chase Norfleet
It'd be nice if Facebook would only show posts that happened after you became friends with someone. I.e. Friend X was added in 2008, so they can't see any posts from before 2008. I'd be good with that.