Mark Zuckerburg announced in F8 Conference that the profile page in Facebook will change dramatically and the change will be known as Facebook Timeline. Little later after that, Techcrunch posted a trick that will make you enable your Facebook Timeline even though its not released yet. The limitation though is that only your ‘fellow’ testers will see that effect on your profile. But even still, lots of people rushed into it just so they could try. Obviously I was one of those many people.
Facebook Timeline has received a bunch of chatter over the past few days. Some people think its heading towards Myspace wherein its starting to clutter itself more and more while some others plainly just like the new timeline.
Aside from this, let’s also not forget that Facebook implemented some new designs on their homepage that drew ire from lots of its users. The biggest concern regarding the new design is the fact that it gives little importance to privacy and that it seems it would benefit stalkers a lot. Also its very easy to get lost in the process considering there’s too much to look at the same time.
Considering all those things, truth is Facebook has been successful in forcing us to adjust to ALL of their changes. People who are currently complaining will only do that for about 2 and a half weeks up until Facebook rolls out new changes again. I guess its a cycle.
Views on Facebook Timeline?
I first saw the Timeline from a beautiful woman named Lisa Bettany who happens to be a contact of mine in Facebook. When I first saw it I was like ‘are you kidding me’. I researched for it and like many of you, I was able to do so successfully.
I view the timeline profile positively. To be honest, it instantly made me melancholic and emotional. I joined Facebook in mid-2008 and for me to see my old posts so easily, that’s so appealing to me. I laughed a bunch of times when I saw some of my ‘retarded’ posts in those old days, when I was just getting started with this blog and spam promoting the hell of my friends, when I was bullying some college friend of mine, there’s just a lot to look back.
I know there’s a lot of people on the hate bandwagon of this new Facebook Timeline thing but for me I view this new feature entirely positive. Sure there’s a bunch of bugs and flaws for now, but that’s fixable. Also, it made Facebook much more cluttered but I’m sure people will adjust, just like forever. It’s not like its really like MySpace where you can put a bunch of widgets and glittered images right?
Lastly, productivity issues will always count. I wasted like 1.5 hours just by scanning my entire timeline and while we’re not gonna look at it everyday, we’re still going to use Facebook as how we’re trained to use it. Nothing’s changing as far as Facebook being a big distraction.
That’s my view on the Facebook Timeline. How about you?
Facbeook has come up with great features like timeline and it’s always improving.
It will be interesting to see how Facebook will fare with Google + in the mix, I always thought Facebook was too difficult to navigate and use, and I think the new interface might make it even more difficult.
I guess I am one of those people that hate changes. Every time I turn around some site is changing something. You just get used to things, and next thing you know you have to figure out how to work the site again. On the other hand, if any site left things exactly the same all the time something new would come along and people would use it instead. So I see it both ways. I just don’t like big changes or frequent changes.
Hey, I think facebook’s new timeline really awesome! Have read how to enable it?
Timeline is a good feature; But yes i do hate things changing with new irritating features until i learn them…urghhh..i really hating learning everyday..
I really liked the new Timeline feature and I don’t worry about the privacy ‘cos I have made my friends according to lists and I have set privacy for each list. The main task in front of me is to build my timeline with the incidents that took place before I started Facebook account
I agree wholeheartedly. Its funny that while Google+ works on minimalism and keeping things simple, Facebook is doing it the other way. But even with that, I’m just not seeing Facebook going away. I just think people have somehow made Facebook an important part of their lives that its hard to live without it.,
Facebook trying new things, but updating very often makes people angry !
Melvin i like all the new things that facebook is coming up with to keep people connecting.
Exactly, no matter how Facebook’s UI is twisted, we are still going to use it as it is still a big market and most importantly, you are friends are there.