No More Dodging Facebook’s Timeline
Facebook’s Timeline is now becoming mandatory for all users. According to the company, over the next few weeks, everyone will get the new Timeline. When you do, you’ll have just seven days to preview what to hide and what to show others on your Facebook page. The Timeline makes it easier for you to travel back through your Facebook posts – which once disappeared off your Wall and into oblivion. The posts from previous months and years are now accessible through new navigational elements on the right-side of your screen that let you quickly travel back in time to the day you were born. You can fill in data from your pre-Facebook years using the new status update box, which now includes support for adding a specific year and various “life events,” including things like marriages, births, deaths, new jobs, trips and vacations, new homes, and other things you might want to record. With Timeline’s added ability to find older posts, including those from the days before your boss, grandparents, mom and dad were on Facebook, users will need to do a rapid cleanup on their profiles when the Timeline goes live. Facebook explains how to hide posts you don’t want to appear on your Timeline: click the pencil to hide, delete or edit a post. You can also use the privacy drop-down to change who can see posts.
