Revealed: Here’s What Facebook Just Changed About Your Profile
- Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:44pm by
Liz Klimas
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Say goodbye to your Facebook profile — at least its design. In the coming weeks your Facebook profile will become a timeline, which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says will allow you to “express who you are” and “help you tell the story of your life.”
This is what Facebook's new Timeline will look like. (Image: f8 conference via BuzzFeed)
“Express,” one of Zuck’s key words for the day, alludes to what feels like transformation of Facebook from social networking to blog site. This is especially apparent in the layout of the new profile timelines, with a banner image spanning the top and categorizing content (map of where you’ve been, things you’ve cooked, your apps, etc.). Timeline will show “the story of your life.”
Watch Facebook’s promotional video for Timeline:
Mashable’s Ben Parr writes that Timeline will “resurface all the content you have created on Facebook.” Could this be an eek moment for some? Facebook will automatically populate your timeline when it is released, you will be able to control the life events you may not want up there and update with some Facebook may have missed. Zuckerberg said “It’s fun and easy to fill out your timeline.”
If you’re interested in being one of the early adopters of Timeline before its mass release, sign up here. This is basically how a Timeline profile will look:
At the conference, Zuckerberg also confirmed previous speculation that Facebook would be updating the “like” button, allowing you to more than just “like” something:
“We are making it so you can connect to anything you want. Now you don’t have to like a book, you can just read a book,” he said. “You don’t have to like a movie; you can just watch a movie.”
Zuckerberg also talked about Spotify, a music streaming service entered into a partnership with Facebook earlier this year. Zuckerberg said at the conference that Spotify allows Facebook users to listen to music that their friends are listening to. When you are listening to Spotify, or using any Facebook app Zuckerberg notes, it will be added to the ticker, a new feature launched this week along with other updates to the News Feed page. that tracks real time Facebook friend activity.
It is through the ticker that Zuckerberg believes apps, music and more will be spread. See this vision in action:
Facebook users are already expressing themselves over these impending changes. Here are a few snapshots of comments on the Facebook blog:
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (123)
USMCRETIRED2001
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:45pmGEE, thanks Mark Zuckerburg. I don’t and never will have a “facebook” page. If people need to get ahold of me, I have a cell phone and email. I think that’s enough exposure. To all of you who have a facebook page, best of luck.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 7:06pmI’m with you… facebook is so gay .. THATS RIGHT , I SAID IT ……….GAY !!
Report Post »NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:10pmWife has a page–I will never have one. Don‘t give a crap about letting everyone know what I’m up to.
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:22pmUSMC, i agree with you 100 percent i also don’t even own, nor do i want a cell phone along with that i own an old car without any of that GPS or onstar crap. People had better start to WAKE UP and see that our freedoms are being taken away a little each day by allowing this company to keep information on us and some other GPS company track us everywhere we go and don’t forget about the smart phones recording everything you do for the past 365 days.
I am getting to the point that i have, and most of you will say oh no this guy is nuts, but i am thinking about not using computers from home anymore at all, if i need to use the computer i can go to the library and use their computers and that will keep me private from the data miners that want to keep track of me and my IPS address.
One more thing if you have time look up whats happening over in England they are going to a national I D card, they have cameras watching them everywhere they go and now some people in their government are talking about putting RF I D chips into each and every person under their skin so the government can track EVERYTHING their SUBJECTS (that’s right once this starts they OWN YOU) not citizens do. Once that happens you no longer have ANY FREEDOM and i will FIGHT that happening here TO THE DEATH, we are people not NUMBERS.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:23pmI have one just to play their games. I don’t post every bodily function like some do…I’m at the store, I’m having X for dinner tonight, my dog peed on the floor…..
Report Post »Ditto Head
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 11:15pmI have a facebook page and a business page, but only so people can find me if they want to. All my facebook “friends” are people I actually know personally. I never post anything on it. No pictures, no personal info, no “status updates”, and I don’t “Like” any pages. I have all the privacy settings locked down so even my “friends” can’t see any more than the general public. I basically use it for a way to find and be found, and also a way to snoop on my friends. And I play in an occasional fake poker tournament and smoke a fake cigar.
This is off-topic, but since someone mentioned OnStar: I’m a little old-fashioned. My truck is equipped with “OffStar”, and I control the high-beams with my foot. It has a carbureted big-block engine, and gets 10 miles to the gallon if I’m going down hill with a tail wind. If gas goes up to $10 a gallon, I’m still going to drive my gas hog. It sounds cool, and I’m trying to make my carbon footprint as huge as possible. I like big stuff.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 12:53amYou are what we call late adopters. You use cell phones and email, but 15 years ago there was someone saying, “I don’t have an email, never will – if someone wants to get a hold of me they can write me”. So, 15 years from now, the late adopters will be saying “I don’t have a ____, never have never will – if someone wants to talk to me they can facebook me”.
It’s the cycle of [product] life. You aren’t impressing anyone with your inability to keep with the times, you are just labeling yourself in the late majority.
Nothing to be proud of, but congrats?
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 3:06amAmen. Also, anyone who actually cares about any of us, already knows how to reach us and what we are about.
Report Post »Wyatt's Torch
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 5:22amThat’s right, and since you have a cellphone, the govt. doesn’t need to look at your facebook profile anyway. They can just use “stingray” to see where you are and check out what you are doing. What a brave new world we live in!
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 9:12amBush troll,
Facebook, twitter, google and all of “social media” are for tracking and herding. Nobody is trying to impress you. People are trying to impress UPON you to stop being a stupid little sheeple. Do some actual reading into the technology used and why people at facebook left early on. Cycle of life? Social media is the exact opposite of life. “You’re not impressing anyone” with anything.
http://searchanddestroybook.com/
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 9:34am@DTOM_Jericho
That’s weird, because my housemate and I are both software engineers and he actually worked for Facebook. I think we understand Facebook’s technology a little more deeply than the average person (that would be you).
Facebook openly data-mines, yeah, but the only data they have to work with are things you supply them. Their only exposure to you is A) The things you do and say on their site, and B) The things you do and say on sites that supply them with information. If you aren’t doing or saying anything online then facebook should be irrelevant to you.
Also it should be noted that they data-mine anonymously. That is to say, while their servers know all the ins and outs about you, no human does. There are 500 Million+ users on facebook sharing literally billions of bits of information daily. No one working at facebook can possibly know or care what YOU are doing, it’s all done using algorithms.
So cut the act.
Report Post »standswithafist
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 11:08amglad i quit fb years ago. it just was not for me.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 12:30pmme too … no Facebook for me!
Report Post »RIGEL_ORION
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 6:41pm@VOTEBUSH
You really shouldn‘t tell half truth’s about the nature and capabilities of Facebook.
Its information mining is initially anonymous simply because of the sheer volume of information being mined. That doesn’t mean its not being recorded, tagged, categorized and saved.
It’s only anonymous for as long as the person is. Stand up and become slightly noticeable or an annoyance to the wrong person, and this ‘anonymous’ information is surprisingly available.
I think most people intrinsically know you are lying anyway, but it was a nice try. I’m sure it was WAY beyond your ability to consider an algorithm could also be written to filter through FB databases looking for pieces of data with one of several specific attributes. Add in some facial mapping software and you’ve got yourself Big Brother.
Considering Zuckerberg is a world class DB with not much in the way of ethics, I’d rather err on the side of him having less information rather than more.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 2:22amWhat Facebook “IS” is a voluntary database that the government really wanted to construct on you that it didn’t get popular support for (or funding) that you yourself create. Sure Mark is the guy who created it. I know that. But government still uses it as a ‘tool’ for a long list of stuff it otherwise wouldn’t have access to. That YOU! provide to them. 5th Amendment Rights? Not if you have made it ‘public’ knowledge.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:43pmWow! Seems to me that all of this info Facebook will collect about everyone will be really valuable to someone! Just imagine all of the advertising they will be able to tailor to your activities. Just think of all the unsolicited attention you can attract with your Facebook account. Is there any truth to the rumors that the CIA, DOJ and Homeland Security have provided development money for this upgrade? Inquiring minds want to know!
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 12:57amI am all for them identifying my shopping patterns, determining my likes and dislikes and tailoring their advertising to suit.
If I have to watch an advertisement I would rather it be about something that interests me.
Also facebook is pretty simple. If you don‘t want people to know something about yourself then don’t post it.
Report Post »RIGEL_ORION
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 6:52pmDefinitely,
I always appreciate my propaganda to be more effective by analyzing my likes and dislikes to determine which half-truth is more likely to be believed. Working in advertising I can attest to the fact that we NEVER twist the message to show only the good points and obscure the bad.
Add in the fact that information is NEVER misused by those in power and I‘m extremely confident that it definitely wouldn’t be used to manipulate public opinion more effectively and create a more loveable totalitarian state.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:41pmwhy do people care SO much about facebook?
Report Post »FreeMan5771
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 8:51amLOTS of losers feel like celebrities when they post information about themselves on Facebook or any other social networking site. You have “followers”, “friends”, even “fans.” There are sections that show which movies, TV Shows, and music artists you like right there on your page.
So, a loser’s pathetic update that reads “Just got my hair done” makes them feel famous and important next to the info about real celebrities, real movies, TV shows, recording artists…REAL famous people. People try to be like celebrities, sad but true!
So with Facebook, everybody’s a “star”: At least in their own little world and circle of “acquaintances”. I had a Facebook account for about 3 months, never posted to it, deleted it. Of course I can log back in at anytime and it will still be there.
I have a fake Facebook account under a fake name that I use to find out more about potential job candidates and others I work with. Some people tell you everything on there. In two minutes or less I can find out an applicant’s circle of friends, their character, where they are from, where they went to school, etc. just by looking at their Facebook page. That’s how I personally use it.
Whoever can see ALL of this data has a very useful tool for tracking people. Social networking is the precursor to chipping I’m afraid. How cool will it be when we all have chips and everything we do and everywhere we go just automatically updates to our Facebook so everyone will kn
Report Post »mils
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 10:41amall we do is play games…looking at google+ instead of facebook.
Facebook just proves to be a good way to communicate fast and with several people.
Report Post »godflesh
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:35pmI got sick of getting sick of all the annoying changes Facebook kept making. So I cancelled my profile last night and will not return. Toodles, Zuck!
Report Post »nick e l
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:27pmWhat losers that feel they have to have their life on the internet. The more information available about yourself the more vulnerable you are.
Report Post »rugin
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:41pmDitto
Report Post »symphonic
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 6:39amAre you SURE its all that risky, or is this TIN FOIL concerns?
Report Post »BBomber66
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:19pmGo away.
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:17pmI agree with ProblemSolver. Never cared to leave my personal stuff out there for the world
Report Post »to see, I don’t need others so much that I beg for them to put their stuff on my “page” – my
life is full without Facebook, thank you very much. People can find out enuf about you without your giving it to them for goodness sake…
shamrockduo
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:55pmi use facebook to “spread the word” about various topis, share links from the blaze, GB, etc. i have no pics of my kids or info about my family, but this is still way over the top. i think people got off myspace because they started changing it every month. facebook may have just pulled a netflix, and committed suicide on this one.
Report Post »Carol in MA
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:10pm@ Shamrockduo, I agree with you…..I use my facebook to spread the word also, maybe that‘s why they’re doing this, to silence the opposition.
Report Post »mils
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:21pmgoogle+ is looking better and better….
I don’t use facebook to bare my soul to the public…I don’t like the changes, too invasive
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:42pmA good majority of my Facebook posts are either 1) games or 2) business related. I write a story about Hitler, about Occupy Wall Street, about Survivor, or whatever, and post it. I don‘t post stuff I wouldn’t want to share with the world, and I don’t ever post my location. I always assume anybody on the planet would be able to read my posts if they wanted to. I don’t really care if the profile is like this, but I’ve never assumed privacy on Facebook.
Report Post »Y2kHoax61
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:53pmSo tired of the constant insidious + overt daily attacks on my privacy and freedom. I am ready to disconnect and reboot…I will work day and night with every breath I have left to elect a new President in 2012.
Report Post »biblegeek119
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:47pm1) Reality shows: What makes the nobodies become famous.
2) Facebook: An internet way for other nobodies that wanted to be in a reality shows but are not.
How pathetic these people.
Can’t believe those lines:
“I am eating pizza”
Report Post »“I just ate pizza”
“Oh no, lost my car keys”
“Me and my friends are going shopping at the ”Zabous Mall” at 3:30pm today”
nick e l
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:29pmThank you!!! The voice of sanity.. dont forget Twitter and all the other useless ways of communicating and spending money.
Report Post »brado9505
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:30pmjust wipin’ my a@@!
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:42pmGlad I’ve been Facebook free for over a year now. Keep changing it fb, and you’ll end up as the next myspace.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 7:14pmLMAO You sound like a recovering faceaholic… I agree bro.. never used it and never will..
Report Post »chfields62
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:24pmI have never liked facebook and like it even less now. My wife is the one who uses it and she and all her friend hate these changes. This is why I don’t use these dumba&& sites………….
Report Post »kalli
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:18pm@Suzanne
“Ewwwwe….this IS even more custom made for stalking…and for the government to keep tabs on folks….I closed finally closed my account over the summer when Obama had his little meeting with the internet biggies, when it was also a possibility Robert Gibbs might become the next Communications Officer….and when they started deleting politically un-correct conservative and anti-jihad groups like Pamela Gellar’s….facebook is a joke now, nothing but a tool for the progressive/islamic agenda.”
I was right there with you. I‘d only signed up about 2 weeks before the townhall was on which told me fb is on the gov’t dole. I deleted everything and deactivated my account. Also, within 60 days, the fraud-in-chief will have the ability to shut down the internet whenever he pleases unless this is killed in congress. I believe that if there is anything spoken against this evil fraud, you will see black suits on your doorstep. FB is too public for my taste, and Americans are in for a real surprise. It‘s part of the leftist’s agenda to control your lives, people!
Report Post »fsmtecky285
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:16pmLooks like something I would love to have on my personal computer to catalog my life for me (which Iphoto already does pretty much), but not something I really want accessible to the world.
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:15pmNever had a facebook account and the more I hear about facebook the more I am very thankful that I made that choice. I just don’t trust them and their buddy in the WH.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:35pmTotally agree.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:12pmI went on Facebook 4 times and put the grandkids on there, after that decided not to use it and have never been able to cancel it. I‘ve tried to cancel 5 times but it won’t let me. Why is it so hard to cancel Facebook??/ Can anyone help?
Report Post »Gamaliel
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:22pmSame here. I think it’s like trying to cancel OnStar.
Report Post »swalt
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:08pmGoogle “how do I cancel my facebook account” and it will walk you right thru it.
Report Post »tonydanibradbury
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:43pmGo to “My Account”, then “Security Settings” then click the link at the bottom that says “Deactivate my account”.
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:09pmOh my, what would mankind ever do without facebook? How could they keep living without this vanity satisfying tool to let everyone on earth know where we live, what we do, and how many pimples we have?
What ever happened to our sense of privacy?
Do you really know who those “friends” are? hmmmm?
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:06pmNo big deal. Just don‘t share information that you don’t want the whole world to see. Very simple.
Report Post »Kansas Mom
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:05pmI’m only on Facebook so I can monitor my (teenage) kids’ accounts. As soon as they are adults I’m gone for good.
I hate Facebook. :(
Report Post »Gamaliel
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:24pmBetter yet, don’t let the kids be on Facebook.
Report Post »Suzanne
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:00pmEwwwwe….this IS even more custom made for stalking…and for the government to keep tabs on folks….I closed finally closed my account over the summer when Obama had his little meeting with the internet biggies, when it was also a possibility Robert Gibbs might become the next Communications Officer….and when they started deleting politically un-correct conservative and anti-jihad groups like Pamela Gellar’s….facebook is a joke now, nothing but a tool for the progressive/islamic agenda.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:53pmI just deleted my facebook account. I do not like censorship, or someone who used a medium to get rich (which is fine in every sense of the word), turning it into a propaganda, and perverted stalker site for the Federal Government.
Sorry Mark, but I choose to say no to Big Brother.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:53pmThe more these tech corporations try to immitate a human life, the more they demean the complexity of humanity. It is a fake, a fraud, a digital copy of a human. I do not use facebook.
My kids will thank me when they are 16 and are the only ones in their classes whose baby pictures are not public domain.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:52pmI don’t facebook, twitter or anything else…and yet the view is still rather nice from under my rock : )
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:50pmYep, sure am glad I closed my account a couple of years ago.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:49pmI am appalled that the free service that I am in no way obligated to use keeps making changes that mildly inconvenience me.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:02pmFacebook. lol.
Report Post »If you people can’t figure out what that is really for, there is no hope for you.
OSU_Buckeye333
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 10:00amLMAO!!!!
Love the comment, love the satire.
Report Post »TRUTHandFREEDOM
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:45pmBig brother’s constitutional citizen monitor system.
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