Facebook Timeline

#1

Post by arnorhs » Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 5:32 PM UTC

Re: Facebook Timeline

#2

Post by ryansloan » Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 5:42 PM UTC

Looks like a digital, semi-automated scrapbook. From my understanding, it's not an overhaul of the profile, but another view of your online identity. If they pull it off it could be pretty cool.

Re: Facebook Timeline

#3

Post by keiferski » Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 5:43 PM UTC

Whatever happened to just "being a utility"? All of these new features really don't line up with Zuckerberg's vision of Facebook.*

*At least my impression of his vision, given that he often describes Facebook as a utility.

Edit: sorry, what did I say that was so offensive? In every single interview I've seen with Zuckerberg, he talks about Facebook being a utility. How does adding various features (like the timeline) correspond with that at all?

Re: Facebook Timeline

#4

Post by richbradshaw » Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 5:46 PM UTC

This does look quite cool. Will be interesting to see it for real.

Re: Facebook Timeline

#5

Post by jojopotato » Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 5:46 PM UTC

ryansloan wrote: post #2

Looks like a digital, semi-automated scrapbook. From my understanding, it's not an overhaul of the profile, but another view of your online identity. If they pull it off it could be pretty cool.

The examples that they are showing look awesome. I wonder if they will surface ex-girlfriends as "important" parts of your timeline.

Re: Facebook Timeline

#6

Post by ryansloan » Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 5:47 PM UTC

jojopotato wrote: post #5

ryansloan wrote: post #2

Looks like a digital, semi-automated scrapbook. From my understanding, it's not an overhaul of the profile, but another view of your online identity. If they pull it off it could be pretty cool.

The examples that they are showing look awesome. I wonder if they will surface ex-girlfriends as "important" parts of your timeline.

Good question. I'd imagine that's part of the logic behind giving you "complete control" :) I'm also interested to see how they associate old photos and other pre-Facebook content with dates.

Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 5:48 PM UTC

keiferski wrote: post #3

Whatever happened to just "being a utility"? All of these new features really don't line up with Zuckerberg's vision of Facebook.* *At least my impression of his vision, given that he often describes Facebook as a utility. Edit: sorry, what did I say that was so offensive? In every single interview I've seen with Zuckerberg, he talks about Facebook being a utility. How does adding various features (like the timeline)…

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Re: Facebook Timeline

#8

Post by ashrust » Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 5:48 PM UTC

I imagine this just killed erly.com's collections.

Re: Facebook Timeline

#9

Post by smackfu » Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 5:50 PM UTC

Have they added a way to change the date on a photo? Because those scanned 80's photos in the demo aren't going to show up in the 80's if you uploaded them in 2010.

Edit: Sounds like you drag the existing photos to the timeline to add them in the appropriate place. Better than nothing...

Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by bdhe » Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 5:50 PM UTC

ryansloan wrote: post #2

Looks like a digital, semi-automated scrapbook. From my understanding, it's not an overhaul of the profile, but another view of your online identity. If they pull it off it could be pretty cool.

Looks like a digital, semi-automated scrapbook.

It is also starting to look a lot like what myspace was. Of course, without allowing customization, they could make it look a lot cleaner and meaningful but only time will tell.