Facebook f8 is today and timeline was launched. Timeline is a new way to represent all the information you shared on Facebook, or actually: it isn't. It is not just your data, your places, your pictures and your videos. It is you. Timeline is the thing that Facebook just made not a social network anymore, Facebook even move away from being a platform. Facebook is now about you, it provides you with the ultimate life recording mechanism there is. All of the sudden Facebook has become your life, to be precise: all the pieces you decide to share and record on Facebook. Therefore it is not a social network, it is your history, it is about the things you did and with who you did these things. It will be richer than just a resume or just a scrap book since in the end it contains everything you can share with Facebook. All the things you wouldn't record anyways, such as your daily commute, the pod casts you are listening to, the blogs you are reading, the people you are with, the things you eat, the movies you watched (and add to all this data additional meta data such a location, time and friends who joined in the activity) can now be part of your timeline. By adding these normally unrecorded things to your timeline you provide so much detail that you revisit certain events not only by viewing a picture, but by listening to the sounds of the event, by viewing the context of it, by seeing who was there, even if you did not see them at the event. It is the nostalgia on steroids. So Facebook isn't a social network anymore, it is now the ultimate recording tool for the things that matter most: life.
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Hi Rick.
You are right :-/
And as Jeff Jarvis analyzed: "FB just increased the switching cost of leaving FB: You lose your life."
You are right :-/
And as Jeff Jarvis analyzed: "FB just increased the switching cost of leaving FB: You lose your life."
Im not sure to [f]Like this change.....
If you don't put a thing on Facebook it can't record a thing either. Simple.
I just gave a quick peek at the new timeline and I have to say it looks more relaxed than the old feed. As long Facebook doesn't tell me to 'what to read and see' I will be using it as a message service to friends.
I just gave a quick peek at the new timeline and I have to say it looks more relaxed than the old feed. As long Facebook doesn't tell me to 'what to read and see' I will be using it as a message service to friends.
The real troublesome question comes when you consider most people act under different personas. I have a professional persona where I project certain views of things and some more when it comes to my personal interests. I’ve been very precise when it comes which channels I use for which persona and I certainly keep my professional one away from FB, even though I interact a lot with persons I met in my professional life. These new changes of FB more or less forces me to blend personas and I’m not sure that’s a good thing.
You can still choose what to share with who Joakim, so you can maintain your personas :).
I seriously think facebook has far to much information on everybody, to the extent that people sometimes unknowingly and freely submit information to it, you're right in the sense that it is not a social network anymore, it has become much more than that, it's a global database where people record their every day stuff without the individual knowing who is actually overseeing the information being recorded or captured, It could be used for exploitation if used by the wrong type of individuals regardless of what capacity the information is required for.
