Topic: Social Enterprise

Facebook's brand new layout and profile pages

Summary: Announced at Facebook's f8 conference today, Facebook's brand new 'timeline' profile layout. Prepare for a shock.

By Zack Whittaker | September 22, 2011 -- 14:34 GMT (07:34 PDT)

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Well, this is it -- your very new profile page. It may take a few days or even weeks for your profile to be changed over, but this is what it looks like.

At the very top you have your 'dashboard', which lets you see the core content of your profile. You can update yourstatus just beneath, which then updates just below.

Split into two columns, this is your 'timeline' -- a bit like a retrospective news feed that goes all the way back to the day you started on Facebook. But, because it's a timeline, you can even add content before you joined -- as you will see later on.

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RE: Facebook's brand new layout and profile pages

So now they're going to mess with the profile page too? What is up with that? I think it totally sucks and I hope FB goes bankrupt because of their stupidity!

NoSocialism4America
22 September, 2011 16:49

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Not the Half of It

I listened on the BBC to an interview with an FB executive presenting FB's plans for the future, which include picking up and posting on FB every online activity of each FB user. If this is confirmed, and goes ahead, it will be a gross invasion of privacy, and I, for one, would certainly get out of FB immediately. If I lose the ability to control my own data, to decide what I post and don't post, then what has been a useful means of connecting with people I want to connect with becomes a means of turning my life into 'The Truman Show'. I suspect that I would not be the only one to object to this!

rupertl3@...
29 September, 2011 01:41

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RE: Facebook's brand new layout and profile pages

Zach, it appears from this column that each of us FB users can't even see this timeline, much less react to it, until FB changes one's page -- true? What about seeing the change in the pages of others? (for example, can you see now -- because you already use the new system -- timelines of others?) thanks.

led2write
30 September, 2011 08:09

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RE: Facebook's brand new layout and profile pages

Wow, this brings a whole new problem to those of us with abusive or controling ex-spouses/relationships and existing restraining orders against them. It's hard enough to keep some people out of your FB and life if they are obsessed with living in the past as a way to attempt to exert control over another. Creative ways such as enlisting mutual friends to remain "connected" to an "ex" of any type has been a particular issue. While I can see the coolness of a timeline, I can not see how I can personally afford the ever increasing privacy risks.

nelsona2005
30 September, 2011 08:45

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New layout just makes it obvious

Aside from the information being right up front and more easily accessable, these changes just make it more obvious just how much information a private amoral for-profit entity has about us - especially since this is just the tip of the iceberg. In addition, it sounds like people can go back and edit or re-invent themselves ( of course, any changes will also be of record to Google and anyone else willing to pay for them)

flukejh06
5 October, 2011 08:11

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