Whether you like it or not, Facebook is making its new profile format – known as the Timeline – compulsory.
In the next few weeks, every Facebook account will be updated with the new-look profile, presenting a scrapbook of all of your past status updates and photographs.
Facebook hopes that you might even fill in information about your life before joining the social network.
And don’t worry if you’re too lazy to keep your Timeline filled with information about your activities – Facebook apps are going to do that job for you.
Spotify, for instance, defaults to filling your Timeline with details of the last song you’ve listened to. (As if your friends were interested..)
https://twitter.com/jackmaddock/status/162693276003090432
Other “frictionless” Facebook apps will share newspaper articles you just read online or buy movie tickets, all without you having to press the “Share” or “Like” button.
So, Facebook is encouraging users to enter even more personal…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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