Timeline made me leave Facebook
Posted in Technical on January 26th, 2012 by iyoung – Be the first to commentFacebook has made moving to their new timeline view compulsary starting on the 2nd of Feb. I really dislike the linear flattening of my life into an accountable browseable format so I left the site this morning. It is a bit of a shame because Facebook has really become a a norm, certainly with regard to organising events and keeping in touch with old friends.
Though once I left, I started to realise that any site that makes you feel any guilt for leaving and also takes up a lot of your time is more of an addiction and they want it that way. The data collected will eventually become a finger print or analysis of your life, extremely valuable and marketable information which will be no doubt be available to marketing companies for many many years to come.
I don’t think I want to allow that kind of analysis of my life, or to try and condense it into a tedious linear timeline that attempts to sum me up. I especially dislike how it makes it easier for future employers, friends, partners to sift back through your history and believe they understand you.
Some of the negative sides to FB Timeline
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