No Thanks, Facebook: Poll Suggests Users Don’t Want Timeline
- It’s large and in charge: Facebook Timeline
is here to stay, so do you love it or hate it? Mostly hate it,
according to a security firm poll of more than 4,000 Facebook users.
- Timeline is Facebook’s way of jamming all your stuff into a kind of
chronological feed. It replaces your profile and dumps all your photos,
videos and posts into an info-stream organized according to the
timeframe you originally uploaded or created them. That also means
it’ll surface past status updates and photographs, making them easier
for others to find and view. It hasn’t been fully rolled out yet, but
will be soon, and participating isn’t optional — Facebook’s making it
mandatory, as in “there’s no opt-out checkbox.”
- Security researcher Sophos asked Facebook members what they thought
of Facebook Timeline, to which 8% responded that they liked it and
another 8% said they’d “get used to it” — call that 16% in favor. The
remainder? Fifty-one percent found Facebook Timeline worrisome, while
the remaining 32% said they weren’t sure why they still used the social
networking service. That’s 83% with a negative take.
- Sophos reminds readers its poll isn’t scientific, and that “the kind
of people who participate in our polls might be more conscious of
privacy and security-related issues than the average man in the
street,” but says the results nonetheless indicate a general sense of
unease with Facebook’s love-it-or-leave-it approach.
- What do you think, Techland readers? Are privacy or usage concerns
about Facebook Timeline overblown? Or should the company have made
participation optional? ~TIME
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