Facebook to roll out new Timeline
Facebook’s new profile format, Facebook Timeline, will be available to all Facebook users in a “few weeks.” Perhaps the most significant mandatory change since the social network’s inception, the new features — which will allow users to look through a person’s old status updates, wall posts and comments with ease — have some users concerned over privacy.
The new profile will give users “an easy way to rediscover the things you shared, and collect your most important moments.” the company wrote on its blog. Timeline made its debut to developers and power users at Facebook’s f8 Developer Conference in September 2011, but on January 24, 2012 Facebook announced on its blog that it will be rolling out the new profile for all of its users.
The new format merges user profiles and wall pages. The changes give users the ability to scroll through their account to highlight, hide, or otherwise remove specific personal content posted to Facebook over the years. To do this, users are able to go into their privacy settings and limit who can see old posts.Various applications allow users to share more detailed information about themselves, and with the major influx of sharing, users are able to construct ultra-specific lists to filter information flow.
Once a user chooses to make the full switch to Timeline, they will have seven days to curate their profile and clean up items posted years ago that they might not want others to see now.
The changes have both fans and critics. AsiaOne reported that the changes actually caused so much concern to a user that he “killed” his account. According to a recent survey by security firm Sophos, only one out of 10 Facebook users support the changes.
Still, Facebook is no stranger to user uproar after a major change is made.
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