Facebook Timeline … Public Safety Warning
Posted by Joanne on January 6, 2012
Have you taken the plunge? Are you now the proud owner of the new Facebook Timeline? When I first saw it I thought ‘hummm another change we really could do without .. maybe the tech guys should go on holiday instead of continuously altering things we really like.’ Come on! I know you agree with me! Remember the back lash the first time they changed our beloved profile. And don’t get my started in the likers .. I still refer to them as fans well it is a ‘Fanpage‘! But I bite the bullet and changed over to the new timeline, I liked the fact you had 7 days to play before it became public, what I didn’t like was how suddenly people I wasn’t friends with were liking my status updates and pictures!!
Cue made dash like a mad women to my privacy settings that are costumed to not allow this to happen!!! Which still state this isn’t allow to happen!! So after a night of de-friending and fiddling with my lovely aid Rachel I soon sorted out the issue. The new timeline defaults all your posts/pictures/links – you name it to public. YES that’s right public!!! What you need to do is go into your privacy settings and scroll down to where is says - Limit the Audience for Past Posts and follow the instructions there!!
Elaine said,
Thanks for the warning… how can I switch to the new set timeline set up – not that I really have time to play with it today!
Joanne said,
If you click on the timeline link in the post it will give you the option to change to the timeline
Erica Martyn said,
Thanks so much for the heads up, just changed to timeline so managed to do this before publishing it!
Ian Hamilton said,
Thanks for the advice Joanne – haven’t converted yet, and guess Mark Zukerberg won’t hold off in the roll-out just because I don’t like it!
Joanne said,
haha possibly not
Kizzy said,
Thanks for sharing I had noticed this yesterday!
Liz Beavan said,
Thanks for the warning! I’m so fed up with them changing it all the time!
Miriam said,
Hmmmmm…I’m really not one for change, especially when it is forced upon me! Will leave the change over for now as I am sure facebook will make me do it at some point in the future. Tut tut, ignoring my Nanny’s advice of not putting off til tomorrow what you can do today but there you go!!
PS – thank you for the tip about security settings, will remember that!
Dee said,
this is great, i changed to timeline and all of a sudden i was getting loads of friend requests from strange people all over the world?! not liking that so hopefully this will put a stop to it
Joanne said,
http://loveallblogs.com/09-01-12-love-tech-weekly-showcase/
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