Facebook Timeline - Classic or Dud

*adjusts golf club in my ass*

it is fine. the constant complaining and "we hate timeline" image sharing by members of my family is a dud though.

people who use facebook to constantly complain about facebook = dud

otm

I don't know much about timeline but if it requires me to put some effort into customizing my profile then I don't like it

haven't gone timeline yet. just don't know what to use as my cover art.

tbh the cover art really makes the timeline

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/1476/screenshot20120313at332.png

adding one picture doesn't seem like too much customization. what's the downside of the timeline?

it makes your fingers fall off

Okay. Judging from the timeline profile that I'm looking at, timelime makes all the pictures you are tagged in REALLY BIG

I don't want big pictures of me! Screw timeline

you can turn pictures off. i don't really get facebook. they keep changing the privacy and other settings and it's utterly confusing.

They can't do that anymore. Once you get your privacy settings to your liking, they can't tinker with them one bit or else they'll be in breech of a legal settlement.

except that they have, in a way.

example:

i set up a "group" of FB friends who i don't want to have full access to everything i post/comment on. it seems as though, once timeline took effect, that all of those people were removed from the group and briefly could access my entire profile. i had to re-add them to the group. but what's more, i don't see that there is any way anymore to create a similar group and adjust the privacy settings accordingly. in fact users' ability to tinker with the privacy settings seems to have become much more limited.

They havent been doing it anyway, afaik! I've had my global post settings set to "post to friends but exclude [this large group of ppl I dont rly know]" and its always honored it. Except *once*, recently, which I suspect was either a glitch, or I fubared something. was easy to edit the few posts it'd affected (THATS another good feature)

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...actually amst thats interesting cos timeline-change is when I thnk mine broke too. But since I fixed my filter its back on, so idunno.

right, but if i wanted to adjust the settings for that "group" or create a new "group" of friends that would have specific privacy settings, i have no idea how to do it, because the options just don't appear any longer in the standard privacy settings pages.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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Peh everyone hates change.

suggest bland

slow to load and navigate, plus the new double-column layout goes against the way everyone has learned to read on the internet. it's not just a 'bah change' complaint, it's genuinely bad design. the ability to flick to older posts is good but this could be done much neater (lowkey side panel, like on blogs and where the ads are now). can't really understand why they did this but i imagine it's something to do with making advertising more effective/prominent rather than make for a more user-friendly experience.

mine's not really that slow anymore tbh. it was only that way before they added the menus at the top where you can just select the year and month.

I do agree its a lot harder on CPU cycle and thus sluggisher. Hate to think what it must be like on older pcs

it's really no harder on my PC than, say....opening Firefox

Yeah Facebook's turning into a slow(er) fat pig on my iphone with the layout changes

i have a piece of shit Acer laptop too (so it's not a PC, whatev)....

really enjoying facebook timeline

it's inadvertently been a good gauge of how my mood has been since starting on Effexor in 09 lol

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1475g95B21qzb8z0o1_1280.png

fucking love timeline

otm

I have seen quite a few lolworthy examples of profile banner recently, its grate.

still representin' as a not-on-facebook snob but as a non-user it looks better imo

Welp. Inevitability sucks.

I like timeline. I've been using it since the first few days of opt-in availability and when I see people's pages with the old layout they look funny and ancient.

pyucch, it's unintuitive and it doesn't show links I commented on. But it doesn't really matter to me much, when would I be on my own profile?

I like funny/ancient, win/win

i know it was all there before but i really hate how it narrativizes my entire non-life. i don't want the stupid bullshit i post there to become IMPORTANT EVENTS.

march 2012, massive comment-box argument with a douchebag!
october 2011, cryptic anger at co-workers and death metal youtubes!

lol otm

it's interesting to see my wall posting diminish over time as it dawns on me nobody reads or listens to most of what i post

I can barely remember what life was like before it.

Anyway, this is bothering the shit out of me. It's their new box for scheduling posts.

http://i.imgur.com/yDuTmXC.png

Just look at it. That is, if you can find it. Wasn't in its normal space today.

But it's also awkward in that you can't just type 1400 for 2 p.m. anymore. You can't even type 2:00 for two in the morning. It's like a credit card number field with invisible boxes. You have to click on the hour and type a number. Then you have to click on the minutes and type a number. And finally, click on the am/pm and type that.

Ok, you can tab through them too, but that's still three extra keystrokes that I never, ever use out of habit. I'll get used to it, but why.

And one last thing, I scheduled my post for 2:45 pm on Monday, but we'll be back on CST by then, so I really have no idea when that post will appear.