Relationships: Facebook Timeline and stalking your Ex - Start deleting



Yeah, I'm not a fan. Why fix what isn't broken? Oh, wait, it's Facebook. And of course I'll join everyone else in complaining about it on Facebook. You win, Mark Zuckerberg. Anyway, in case you haven't heard, Facebook's design will change to the Timeline format soon. Everyone was given seven days to organize their Timeline before their friends see it. After that..well, I'm not sure what happens. Does Facebook change it for you? In a couple weeks the Timeline will be the standard Facebook layout. 

Basically it makes your Facebook page into a personal scrapbook of your life story for everyone to see. So if there's anything you don't want people to see, get to deleting stuff ASAP. The thing that is making everyone freak out is that FACEBOOK FORGETS NOTHING. Remember that drunken status update you made about loving late-night burritos and tequila back in 2006? Well, it'll be on your Timeline for your friends, mom and coworkers to see. Which is a major problem for anyone who, say, signed up with Facebook back when they were in college and are now a responsible adult with a job and grown-up status updates about their dog and how great Claire Danes was on Homeland last night. Don't want to relive a certain time period on Facebook? Too bad. It'll be on your Timeline unless you do something about it. All your love-y dovey status updates about exes, your awkward photos you forgot to untag...it'll all be there. What amuses me is that in the layout, it's like nothing is all that important in your life before Facebook came along in 2005. 

And, yes, the layout is confusing to say the least. Finding old stuff is easy enough, but if you go to a friend's page, it's a mess of status updates and their friends' activity and it's really hard to look at anything new or even tell when and where someone posted something on your page. If nothing else, it's yet another reminder that while we think we're sending our Tweets and status updates and what not out into the Web never to be seen again, they're actually always there to come back and haunt us. 

Well, I guess the cover banner is kind of cool. Here are some geeky banners. Also, apparently there was way to see who defriended you, but Facebook did away with that feature. So you're spared that awkwardness until the next inevitable update.

What do you think of Facebook Timeline? Would you rather not be forced to relive certain time periods everytime you log in? 


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