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Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by blantonl »

muppetman wrote: post #52

I'm amazed I'm the only one it seems that things this is pretty lame and not going to be that popular. People _already know_ your life story, that's usually why their your (at least close) friends. Do you really want to see your workmates "life story"? For those that think this is genuinely going to be a good and popular thing, could you explain why? You probably all know much better than me, so I am interested to he…

Dont about the downvotes. It's probably because you haven't used the timeline features yet.

As a current user of the timeline feature (it is available to Facebook developers), I am amazed and almost creeped out about how easy it is for me to see back to the very day that I joined Facebook, and to easily review all my interactions since then. I can assure that you will be too.

Re: Facebook Timeline

#132

Post by tolmasky »

blantonl wrote: post #130

Interesting to note that Facebook Timeline uses Microsoft's Bing maps for all mapping presentation. Direct shot across Google's bow? I'm a Facebook developer and followed these instructions from none other than TechCrunch to get my timeline profile up and running. http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/how-to-enable-facebook-time... In any case, I thought the Bing Maps integration is a pretty significant item to note the g…

Also, Microsoft owns part of Facebook, so there's that.

Re: Facebook Timeline

#133

Post by pycassa »

muppetman wrote: post #52

I'm amazed I'm the only one it seems that things this is pretty lame and not going to be that popular. People _already know_ your life story, that's usually why their your (at least close) friends. Do you really want to see your workmates "life story"? For those that think this is genuinely going to be a good and popular thing, could you explain why? You probably all know much better than me, so I am interested to he…

honestly, i was worried too. but after setting up my timeline, it looks quite nice. one of the unused assets of facebook and twitter are our past activities on them, it is more profound in case of twitter, where consuming our past tweets is really a bad experience, honestly i dont know it would add much to the twitter experience. the other end of this spectrum is the photos experience in facebook. no matter at what time you added a photo in facebook, there is this photos app to make it easier to consume it all at a time, and checking out the albums of a friend/stalkee/victim is one of the things i would do most of the time when i am in their profile. now with timelines, you will be knowing more about the person, and i think i will be spending quite some time checking out friends timelines similar to albums. even though some what skeptical at first, after using it, i quite like it. it is not clumsy at all.

Re: Facebook Timeline

#134

Post by rwolf »

blantonl wrote: post #130

Interesting to note that Facebook Timeline uses Microsoft's Bing maps for all mapping presentation. Direct shot across Google's bow? I'm a Facebook developer and followed these instructions from none other than TechCrunch to get my timeline profile up and running. http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/how-to-enable-facebook-time... In any case, I thought the Bing Maps integration is a pretty significant item to note the g…

It's in a similar vein to the recent Skype integration.

Re: Facebook Timeline

#136

Post by muppetman »

blantonl wrote: post #131
muppetman wrote: post #52

I'm amazed I'm the only one it seems that things this is pretty lame and not going to be that popular. People _already know_ your life story, that's usually why their your (at least close) friends. Do you really want to see your workmates "life story"? For those that think this is genuinely going to be a good and popular thing, could you explain why? You probably all know much better than me, so I am interested to he…

Dont about the downvotes. It's probably because you haven't used the timeline features yet. As a current user of the timeline feature (it is available to Facebook developers), I am amazed and almost creeped out about how easy it is for me to see back to the very day that I joined Facebook, and to easily review all my interactions since then. I can assure that you will be too.

Yea I've just found out how to enable it and have been looking at it. It certainly is initially exciting, but is it a killer feature? I have my doubts. That said I appreciate everyone (yourself included) that took the time to explain their POV in detail.

Re: Facebook Timeline

#137

Post by astrofinch »

acak wrote: post #71
Yhippa wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How cool is this going to be for kids who grew up with Facebook and their kids and their kids' kids? I would love to have had insight to this level of detail for my ancestors.

Yep. And I wish there was a way to capture everything in my life in this Timeline-like fashion, without any extra effort from me. The one condition I have, though, is that I don't share it with anyone except someone I explicitly want to share it with. With everything being absolutely private and in my control to carry with me, by default, it would be killer. But this could well be opposite to Facebook's own direction…

I always figure my life is archived thoroughly enough by the e-mails I send and receive for me to reconstruct any period in reasonably high resolution.

Re: Facebook Timeline

#138

Post by veyron »

0x12 wrote: post #118
Yhippa wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How cool is this going to be for kids who grew up with Facebook and their kids and their kids' kids? I would love to have had insight to this level of detail for my ancestors.

Do you really believe that facebook will be around for 4 consecutive generations while retaining the data that was entered there?

That's when they will start charging for access ... gateway to your family history

Re: Facebook Timeline

#139

Post by jcitme »

0x12 wrote: post #118
Yhippa wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How cool is this going to be for kids who grew up with Facebook and their kids and their kids' kids? I would love to have had insight to this level of detail for my ancestors.

Do you really believe that facebook will be around for 4 consecutive generations while retaining the data that was entered there?

Yes. I consider myself a pretty average user for the last 5 or so years on Facebook. I don't have a lot of videos uploaded, but do have a lot of pictures. Facebook compresses those like crazy though, so maybe I have about a gigabyte of data. At any rate, given that their (as in the company) worth is estimated at more than 200x the people that have access to high speed internet in the world in dollars [1], I think they can probably keep my data, barring bit rot.

note: This assumes that people with dial up don't use Facebook. Probably a valid assumption, or at least that the amount of data a dial up user supplies would not make storage an issue.

Their user base is quickly reaching the point where it is limited to the human population of earth itself (This is an assumption, but they claim 800 active users, which while might be questionable {define "active"} if the true value is around there, they cannot achieve exponential growth). Most people probably only load text, or highly compressed jpg photos. If they can simply turn a profit with a business model that can support the current state, they should be fine.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...

Re: Facebook Timeline

#140

Post by RobPfeifer »

Yhippa wrote: post #49
tuhin wrote: post #36

This in short is a great piece of design. Especially coming out of facebook this is amazing (well they now have one of the most talented designers so not that surprising). However, as a business this is killer and shrewd. Everyone would want to save a log of their life. More app permissions to add to timeline > more auto posts in ticker > more connection for Facebook. Well played! Disclosure: I am working on somethin…

How cool is this going to be for kids who grew up with Facebook and their kids and their kids' kids? I would love to have had insight to this level of detail for my ancestors.

Would you trust FB with that data? I certainly would not. Nor would I trust ancestry.com.
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