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Facebook: Feelings of Nostalgia
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The Facebook Timeline will soon be mandatory for all Facebook users.
Sara Allen, Sports Editor
February 7, 2012
Filed under Featured Multimedia, Opinion, Video
As the world become more technological, a new Facebook update changes the way humans can easily share their past memories on a website that anyone can access. Facebook has been a website for people to inform their friends, family, and co-workers of their own everyday life. The new Facebook Timeline has taken this project to the next level.
The Facebook Timeline is a new feature that changes the layout of your Facebook page. Instead of the normal layout, where only the most recent status is easily accessible, the new timeline shows posts, comments, and pictures from the beginning of their time being a Facebook member.
The new Facebook Timeline is set up in an accessible way for anyone to use. The timeline comes with a picture banner called a “cover photo” that is seen first when someone views your Facebook page. Following the cover photo, all your recent posts will appear and just beneath a few post,s you can access every year of your Facebook life. Before, trying to see posts from previous years would take a lot of clicking and a lot of time to uncover.
The Daily Caller says, “The timeline made its debut in a Facebook conference in September 2011, but on January 24, 2012 Facebook announced that they will be rolling out their new profile for all of its users.” The new timeline is making its way into being a permanent change to Facebook. Acccording to an article on Yahoo News, “The new Facebook Timeline was just optional for a few months until recently it has become mandatory. Eventually, everyone will have the new Facebook Timeline.” With everyone being forced to change the way they showcase their life on the Internet, some are having trouble with the new timeline.
With a new change to someone’s everyday life of Facebook, some seem to dislike the new feature Facebook has come up with. Senior Skylar Walsh, who spends tremendous amounts of time on Facebook, admitted, “I don’t think the new timeline is very efficient. It isn’t anything brand new or interesting. I think it would be much simpler to stick with something everyone knows how to use.” Yahoo News says, “Some users think the new timeline is an invasion of their privacy.”
On the other hand, some people argue that the new timeline is a way to remember past events that they may have forgotten about, and now, they will never have to forget. Yahoo News states, “Some Facebook users enjoy the new change to Facebook. They like how they can showcase their page in a different way.” Facebook is only one of the many websites that has stuck to a simple layout that hasn’t changed until now. The new layout lures in Facebook users who want a change to the way they publish their lives.
Whether a Facebook user prefers the new timeline or not, the new update to Facebook, one of the leading social networks in the world, may change the way our lives are showcased on the worldwide web. The new timeline may give one a feeling of nostalgia, where all their memories are so easily accessible with just one click, or it may give a person a feeling of being exposed and invaded. Eventually, all Facebook users will be forced to adapt to the change. Will this cause Facebook to lose some of their users? Or, will it be added to the brilliant inventions in technology history? Either way, the new Facebook Timeline is a new update to our growing technological world.
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