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The problem with timeline, for me, is lack of context. Scroll back to the beginning of my life on facebook and you see exchanges between me and my then girlfri

by blhack 15y ago

The problem with timeline, for me, is lack of context. Scroll back to the beginning of my life on facebook and you see exchanges between me and my then girlfriend. Scrolling through 5 years worth of status updates gave you context for this (sortof), it was psychologically "far" away. Being able to just click "2006", and easily see that stuff is creepy. This is why I can't stand this timeline nonsense. So...do I delete all of this stuff? I don't have a problem with these things being a part of my history, I just don't like them being presented in such a readily-available way...

pietro 15y ago
I have similar feelings about this. I'm deleting everything that isn't part of my current life, and I've all but stopped posting. It's a shame, really.
henrikschroder 15y ago
This is also my main problem with it. The idea is nice to have some sort of diary where you log important events in your life so that you can scroll back in someone's history and see when important things happened. But sometime before Timeline, Facebook made a change so that each post has an individual visibility to give users more control or whatever, and when I switched over to Timeline, all my old posts that weren't private automatically appeared on my timeline, and I can't easily change the visibility of all those old posts, that are now much more easily accessible. I want the newer posts on my Timeline to be visible, so others can see the latest crap I shared with my friends, but I want the older posts to fade into obscurity, unless I actively bring them back again.
- runn1ng 15y ago
  You can change the visibility of all the past posts easily; select " Limit the Audience for Past Posts" in Privacy Settings.
  - untog 15y ago
    Last time I checked that only allowed you to set it to 'friends', as opposed to 'public'. There was no option to set it to specific groups of friends.
  - henrikschroder 15y ago
    Thanks, but you can only set past post visbility to "Friends", not "Private", and I don't see any definition of how old a post has to be to be considered a "past post".
sudoscience 15y ago
I, unlike others, love Timeline, but I think the product cast too wide a net. Do I want to go back and revisit posts I made in 2006? I sure do, and love to be able to do that easily. Do I want others to do that? Well, not so much. Timeline would have been a perfect product in my view if it only applied to your own profile.

by blhack 15y ago

pietro 15y ago

I have similar feelings about this. I'm deleting everything that isn't part of my current life, and I've all but stopped posting. It's a shame, really.

henrikschroder 15y ago

This is also my main problem with it. The idea is nice to have some sort of diary where you log important events in your life so that you can scroll back in someone's history and see when important things happened. But sometime before Timeline, Facebook made a change so that each post has an individual visibility to give users more control or whatever, and when I switched over to Timeline, all my old posts that weren't private automatically appeared on my timeline, and I can't easily change the visibility of all those old posts, that are now much more easily accessible. I want the newer posts on my Timeline to be visible, so others can see the latest crap I shared with my friends, but I want the older posts to fade into obscurity, unless I actively bring them back again.

runn1ng 15y ago
You can change the visibility of all the past posts easily; select " Limit the Audience for Past Posts" in Privacy Settings.
- untog 15y ago
  Last time I checked that only allowed you to set it to 'friends', as opposed to 'public'. There was no option to set it to specific groups of friends.
- henrikschroder 15y ago
  Thanks, but you can only set past post visbility to "Friends", not "Private", and I don't see any definition of how old a post has to be to be considered a "past post".

sudoscience 15y ago

I, unlike others, love Timeline, but I think the product cast too wide a net. Do I want to go back and revisit posts I made in 2006? I sure do, and love to be able to do that easily. Do I want others to do that? Well, not so much. Timeline would have been a perfect product in my view if it only applied to your own profile.