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Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« on: July 27, 2012, 12:23:57 AM »
The narcissist in me will have to suffer.
I'm done with it.
If it wasn't for GreaseMonkey and FFfixer script I would have left long ago.

Will this latest move make anyone else change their FBing habits?
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2012, 12:26:52 AM »
Never cared to put myself out there and make it easier for ex-gfs and disowned family to find me.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2012, 04:48:14 AM »
Best part of Facepalmbook is getting to make snarky comments when other people get all whiney about how unfair life is.
A few days ago one of my nieces was whining about a local radio station changing format from Gen-X to country. Seems she missed the "old school" gen- x music.
I informed her that at 21 she wasn't old enough to have anything old school and that the reason they changed formats was because the radio station existed to make money and as a demographic gen-xers didn't have enough money to support a radio station. She didn't unfriend me but she isn't talking to me yet.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2012, 05:41:30 AM »
The narcissist in me will have to suffer.
I'm done with it.
If it wasn't for GreaseMonkey and FFfixer script I would have left long ago.

Will this latest move make anyone else change their FBing habits?

So, the old format is now two columns instead of one. . . I don't see the disaster.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2012, 08:28:36 AM »
Meh...I have timeline for months now (early adopter) and it doesn't bother me at all.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2012, 09:58:30 AM »
Facebook is worth two three things to me:  Makes it easy to contact family and I can bait some folks and not rise to the bait dangled by others.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2012, 10:01:12 AM »
Never cared to put myself out there and make it easier for ex-gfs and disowned family to find me.

No, you don't get it. Being on Facebook is totally worth it because you can continue to refuse to associate with those people and deny their "friend" requests.  =D
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2012, 10:10:58 AM »
Facebook is free to the user.  I dislike timeline, but look at it as part of taking a free service...you get what you pay for.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2012, 10:13:29 AM »
What Jamis said.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2012, 12:23:56 PM »
Still no timeline here
It is much more powerful to seek Truth for one's self.  Seeing and hearing that others seem to have found it can be a motivation.  With me, I was drawn because of much error and bad judgment on my part. Confronting one's own errors and bad judgment is a very life altering situation.  Confronting the errors and bad judgment of others is usually hypocrisy.


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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2012, 12:27:27 PM »
I'm just glad I have no idea what you're talking about... =D

I have a facebook account, but I get on it about once a month to post something inane on the AZ Appleseed presence we have.  I don't do anything with "my" facebook account.

What is timeline?
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2012, 08:07:05 PM »
I dropped off of Facebook shortly before they announced their IPO.  I got very uncomfortable with the amount of data (albeit boring data) they were accumulating on me.  So far, I haven't missed it at all.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2012, 08:44:48 PM »
What is this "Timeline" of which you speak?  (I know what Facebook is, but I don't have an account) 

I've considered setting up a "generic" account with as little data as I can get by with, only because so many businesses now use FB to post product info, conduct surveys, etc.  Pretty soon, that's where their customer service will live.

I really don't understand why people spend hours a day broadcasting all their personal info and pictures to the whole world.  (instead of spending hours a day posting semi-anonymously on gun boards)

I do like AJ's idea of getting an account just so I can reject friend requests.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2012, 08:48:51 PM »
I just got timelamed myself.

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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2012, 11:45:14 AM »
I've had timeline for a while and like ADively, I don't see a problem with it. What bothers you about it Infidel?

Facebook's purpose for me is allowing me to keep up with friends around the country that I don't get a chance to talk to very often, keep up with my kids when they're too busy for phone calls, and contribute to the snark as humor strikes me.  =D
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2012, 01:43:46 PM »
Sorry for the "hit and run" post. I've been out of town for nearly a month.
To answer your question MrsSmith.
I don't like the date based layout.  I preferred the old layout where you could see posts as they were made. Not organized by the day and month. 
My primary gripe is that I had no choice. It was forced upon me. I know I know free service and all.
Granted after dealing with this at least the mobile app and the news feed is still in the format I prefer.
Their decision to revamp my interface has made me decide to drastically cut back on it's use.
Besides I'm also getting tired of discovering how many of my old classmates have turned into raging liberals, who by their decision at the polls will place them in the category of enemy of the constitution. And thus an outright traitor in my eyes.
Sad.
Oh well that's why I continue to come here and listen to and talk with people of like mind.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2012, 02:05:18 PM »
After having it for a while I like Timeline better than the previous interface.  It makes finding things on your own page easier.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #17 on: August 24, 2012, 03:01:23 PM »
I will have to delete my account soon.  I never use the thing.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #18 on: August 24, 2012, 10:16:52 PM »
My main grip about timeline is that I can't do much editing on the mobile app version. Which happens to be the only version I use...

I don't have an actual computer to sit and set it up the way i'd like. Using the phone browser to load the full site doesn't work. FB uses too many windows within the site itself, and you can't navagate them on a touchscreen.

I loathed the change in the news feed where the default is some random order instead of just all cronilogical and you have to reset the default everytime you use it.

I guess my main gripe with FB is, why do they keep fixing what already works?  ??? I don't get the point. Everyone hates it when they change stuff and they have to know that.

At the same time, free services, they can do what they want and if I want to use it, I just have to suck it up. *shrug* I like the antisocial-social aspect.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #19 on: August 24, 2012, 10:27:08 PM »
My main grip about timeline is that I can't do much editing on the mobile app version. Which happens to be the only version I use...

I don't have an actual computer to sit and set it up the way i'd like. Using the phone browser to load the full site doesn't work. FB uses too many windows within the site itself, and you can't navagate them on a touchscreen.

I loathed the change in the news feed where the default is some random order instead of just all cronilogical and you have to reset the default everytime you use it.

I guess my main gripe with FB is, why do they keep fixing what already works?  ??? I don't get the point. Everyone hates it when they change stuff and they have to know that.

At the same time, free services, they can do what they want and if I want to use it, I just have to suck it up. *shrug* I like the antisocial-social aspect.

Market share is plummeting. Execs are grasping. They're in panic mode. I, too became fed up with the data collection. I pulled the plug two weeks ago and have yet to miss it. You do realize that everything you say there, now, is admissible as evidence in a court proceeding?

Doesn't mean I might not buy up shares here soon.  :cool:
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #20 on: August 24, 2012, 10:43:53 PM »
Market share is plummeting. Execs are grasping. They're in panic mode. I, too became fed up with the data collection. I pulled the plug two weeks ago and have yet to miss it. You do realize that everything you say there, now, is admissible as evidence in a court proceeding?

Doesn't mean I might not buy up shares here soon.  :cool:

And my biggest grip about fb comes to the front.

I do not like this attitude that we have to alter our distinction between our personal/private life and our professional/public life based on advances in social connection.
If for some reason I ever got a job that required me to let them log on my FB page, I'm either telling them to GTF hell or lying and making a fake page. FB is what you make of it, and mine is nothing I wouldn't say to friends/family in my own living room. My choice. I don't inflict that veiw on others. At the same time, if I'm not willing to invite you over to chill in my living room, then your not welcome on my FB page.
And I really don't appreciate the attitude that it's ok for a company or government entities to ignore that. Government wants in, wants evidance in court, then I expect the same procedure they would use to come in and search my living room.

Yes, I know the responce to this, yadda, yadda, yadda, you put it out on the internet, it's fair game BS. Doesn't matter. It's still a snotty attitude and an intrusion on someones personal life, and I don't appreciate it.

And my one little defiance is I'm going to keep on going with my FB habits as is, and if somebody's got an issue, they can shove it.
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #21 on: August 24, 2012, 11:08:48 PM »
Were it free speech, I would still participate. It is no longer that. Therefore, I'm done.
 

 
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Re: Facebook forces Timeline on us all.
« Reply #22 on: August 24, 2012, 11:19:44 PM »
They are, in essence, mirandizing you pre-facto, upon that court ruling.

Will I say anything under those terms, ever again? Not.a.chance.in.hell.
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