In preparation for the public release of its new feature “Timeline”, Facebook now lets you post photos to your Timeline with a past date.
That makes complete sense, since the idea of having a Facebook Timeline is to backlog everything you’ve experienced, turning your Facebook profile into a digital scrapbook for safe-keeping.
When you open a photo now, you are shown a “change date” option in the bottom right, which lets set any date for a photo.
Up until now, all photos on Facebook were given a timestamp based on when you uploaded it to the service.
This is definitely one of the things the company is putting in place as final touches on the full release of the Timeline feature for all 800 plus million of its users.
The question I have about Facebook‘s Timeline is will people actually spend a lot of time uploading photos and making posts about prior life experiences and meticulously date them? It sounds like a lot of work to me, and it will be interesting to watch how the adoption grows once its fully released.
At least they gave us few day to use the trial version:
http://www.profiletimelinecover.com/7-days-trial-for-timeline
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LikeI wouldn't, but some people have a LOT of time on their hands.
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LikeEven if people don't go back in time and re-date their photos. From now onward, the 'timeline' will start building up for everyone that is using facebook actively. I can't wait for it to come out!
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LikeThey've also added the ability to add past dates to not just photos but normal posts on your timeline too.
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Likeactually even when timeline was developers only it was possible to change date by going explicitly to the image inside the timeline ( or in "view activity" option )/
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LikeOh wow, I thought Timeline was supposed to launch on early October. Will that explain why I don't have the Ticker AT ALL and why my smarts lists do not work? I do have timeline now, though (dev trick).
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LikeConversation from Facebook
I already work on some Travel Stories I am going to tell with Timeline
There are better places to backup photos with better copyright policies.
Maybe one or two. That might be all Facebook needs from everyone to make it a success.
Nope.
Nope, you want lure me into sharing more FB :D
No. I like Timeline, but as far as FB's concerned I don't exist before 2007. I'm cool with that.
Will Timeline be forcibly added to every Facebook user's profile? I don't like Timeline at all.