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Facebook forces Timeline; tips to hide users' past

Facebook forces users to switch to Timeline, making their pasts more visible

NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find.

Timeline is essentially a scrapbook of your whole life on Facebook, compared with a snapshot of you today found on Facebook's traditional profile page. Once activated, Timeline replaces the current profile.

Although some people have already voluntarily switched to Timeline, Facebook hadn't made that mandatory. Beginning Tuesday, Facebook is telling some users that they have seven days to clean up their profiles before Timeline gets automatically activated. Facebook is rolling out the requirement to others over the next few weeks.

At some point, even those who haven't logged on to Facebook in a while will be automatically switched.

Timeline doesn't expose anything that wasn't available for sharing in the past. Many of those older posts

5 Comments

I've been using timeline on Facebook for awhile now and really like it. Much better than scrolling through a million pages of "older posts" to see what you want. And now you can change your privacy settings on posts even after posting them.

16 months ago

Thanks for your opinion

15 months ago

i don't like time line :(
how can i remove it ?????

15 months ago

I have got the old version on FB, don't know how to go back :D

15 months ago