Facebook wants to tell everyone your life story!
Facebook on Thursday began turning profile pages into interactive digital scrap books that that let members of the world’s leading online social network tell the stories of their lives. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the annual f8 developers conference in San Francisco by introducing “Timeline” pages that let people digitally map everything they’ve ever done. “The heart of your Facebook experience, completely rethought from the ground up,” Zuckerberg said. “Timeline is the story of your life.”
He demonstrated by showing how his new profile page chronicled his experiences from meeting US President Barack Obama to baby photos. “The biggest challenge was to tell the story of your life in a single page,” Zuckerberg said. “What Timeline does is show all the recent activity and then as you go back in time it starts summarizing the things you’ve done in your life.”
Facebook had no plans for an “app store” along the lines of the one run by Apple at its online iTunes shop. Facebook will leave it to members to spread media sharing applications. People will need to install third party applications to share snippets in Timeline profile pages, which will feature privacy controls. Applications will also require people to set data sharing “permissions” before they are used. Partners ready with “open graph” applications included online streaming video services Netflix and Hulu. Applications were also available to deliver and share news stories from sources including Yahoo and “The Daily.”
Facebook launched a test version of Timeline, which will be rolled to all of the social network’s 800 million members in coming weeks. “Facebook is positioning itself as not just your social graph online, but your life online,” said Forrester analyst Sean Corcoran. “These changes not only help trump rival Google, but will open up new opportunities for marketers with new kinds of customer experiences, long term engagement, advertising, and customer intelligence,” he continued.
Hell will freeze over before I fall prey to this nonsense! Not only do these people want to know everything about you in the present but now they want to go all the way back to infancy with a graph and timeline provided by you! The thing that amazes me is that the general public is stupid enough to provide these people with the hard work and free information. With all of the violations against Facebook to date, people continue to violate their own right to privacy and enable Facebook to profit from it! LOL Don’t be such an idiot! Ask yourself, what is Facebook doing for me??? What do I have to gain from providing them with all of MY INFORMATION TO USE AS THEY SEE FIT? PLEASE ACTUALLY READ THE TERMS OF AGREEMENT CAREFULLY! People obviously don’t. It’s the let’s follow the dumb herd mentality again. What’s good enough for the crowd is good enough for me. Other service providers are much more secure and trustworthy. Suckerberg is scrambling bc he knows that his days of glory are behind him.