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The biggest issue for me is the following. When I post something on facebook, there's a personal context of who I'm friends with at the time. Three years ago,
by endlessvoid94 15y ago
The biggest issue for me is the following.
When I post something on facebook, there's a personal context of who I'm friends with at the time. Three years ago, I was a different person. I was friends with different people. And I've never before had the access to old data.
Now, I (and others) are able to browse those posts in a different context from when they were posted. It's a pretty radical shift. For example, I've grown more and more guarded about posting things like "this job sucks" or something. But I used to do it years ago, because it was much more private than it is now.
Now others can go back and see my posts. It's opt-out instead of opt-in on my part. It's very different, and it's unclear to me what the ramification are. Might be bad, might be good.
Like everything else: "we'll see".
- voyou 15y ago>Now others can go back and see my posts. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "now" here, but this isn't a recent change - for as long as I can remember, Facebook has let you see past posts by your friends. If anything, the Timeline feature limits the visibility of past posts, because, if I understand it, it lets you choose what stuff is emphasized on your timeline.
- endlessvoid94 15y agoIt has never been easy for me to see status updates and wall posts from 2006 without clicking back hundreds of times. Perhaps I'm overlooking something though. I'd love to know if this is the case.
- rythie 15y agoHowever, Facebook did show random old status updates on right hand side next to other content by them.