Facebook Timeline – Mark Zuckerberg encourages you to be less private

Facebook has announced a major revamp, which will impact its 800 million users.

Your old profile is going to be redesigned, and presented instead as a timeline going back to when you first joined the social network, and (if you so choose) even beyond..

Most Facebook users don’t have the Timeline yet, but you can access it if you’re a developer. Here’s what my Facebook Timeline looks like:

Here’s the video Facebook made, designed to tug at your heartstrings and sell you on the idea of the Facebook Timeline.

Curiously, Facebook has disallowed anyone from leaving comments on their YouTube video. Worried about a negative reaction, perhaps?

What may disturb some people is that the timeline is going to make it easier to trawl back…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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