Facebook Timeline compulsory from 8th August 2012
Facebook Timeline compulsory from 8th August 2012
If you are one among the eight million Facebook users, you will certainly be aware that Facebook never fails to experiment and come up with fresh features for its users. One such feature is the Timeline. A number of users gladly switched to Timeline. If you are not among those users, this latest news from Facebook will not be received well by you. Willingly or not, you will have to bid farewell to your profile with ‘Old Facebook Look’ for Timeline will now be made mandatory for each and every Facebook user.
New to Timeline, here is what it is all about!
All that which has ever been posted on your Facebook profiles whether it is pictures, videos or posts everything will be arranged according to the time period they belong to. You entire life on Facebook will be displayed as a story in chorological order.
This makes searching for older posts much easier. Instead of scrolling through all the posts on your profile, you can simply chose to visit posts of a particular year with the help of options given on the top right of your profile. Instead of just a single profile picture, you can put up a cover photo and a profile picture. Timeline looks pretty good and those users who wanted to keep it stylish switched over to Timeline. .
Once you really get used to it, Facebook Timeline has a number of great features which will make Facebook more fun and interesting.
From when will Timeline be made compulsory?
Timeline has been here for quite a long time and so far it has been optional rather than being compulsory. It comes as disappointing news for all the users who still used the older version of Facebook that from 8th August they will be left with no choice and will have to switch to Timeline. To help these users get used to Timeline and prepare themselves beforehand, Facebook has given them a preview of Timeline. 8th of August is when we bid farewell to the older version of Facebook profiles forever.
So is it a good idea after all?
Undoubtedly, many Facebook users liked the Timeline feature and accepted it within few days of its release. However, even after all this time we have a large number of users who chose the older version over Timeline and were in no mood to switch over to Timeline anytime soon. These users think, making the Timeline mandatory was taking it a bit too far. The users are unhappy with having no choice left but accepting Timeline. A disappointed user wrote I’m sorry but this is rubbish. I’m surprised Facebook hasn’t included a compulsory DNA profile section (default to public obviously). This is one of the many reactions which clearly displayed that the news of making Timeline compulsory for every user was not accepted happily by the users.
Users generally do not accept the changes made in the sites they use daily. Similar disappointment was shown when BBC redesigned its homepage
Facebook Timeline Cmmpulsory
Right now we cannot say whether the change will be accepted by the users. It is only after 8 of August that we may conclude how correct Facebook was in making the Timeline feature a compulsion. Till then the users who had stick to the older version of Facebook profiles for so long are showing their dissatisfaction over this new declaration from Facebook. Meanwhile these users are exploring Timeline with the help of the preview offered by Facebook. So ready for it or not, its time you say goodbye to your good old simple Facebook profiles and welcome Facebook Timeline.
Lolzz..I was trying to find the trick to remove the timeline and now it banged up. 😀 Cross fingers, waiting to watch 😉
Actually in some countries it has already begun. They were surprised yesterday that their profile page is now on timeline.
Good to know that Facebook is forcing timeline for everyone. I hate the old profile and visiting people with an old profile is a big snooze.
i don’t enjoy being dictated to design my fb page their way. its my page, if i wanted the stupid timeline i would have changed it long ago. get a grip facebook. its not about you. its about me.
Rightly said Karen! The users should have their right of choosing Timeline! Keep Visiting! We would love to hear from you.
I hate old time line, since everyone moved to new home, so I too moved to new time line when the time of Facebook launched it. Now this is time for others to move it to a new home.
Well Facebook Timeline looks great but it will take more time to load so most of the user would want to remove timeline from their profiles but sadly it will be compulsory soon. 🙁
It’s August 9th in my country and I still have the old facebook profile. Are you completely sure that it will be compulsory?
You are right Natalia. This is what it was announced on part of Facebook. But it seems that they have not completely implemented it yet. Present scenario says FB timeline has been made compulsory for many countries (but not all); there are many countries where old profile is still there. So those who loves old FB profile in your country (i am sure you are one of them), this is certainly a good news, isn’t it? 🙂
Well, it’s august 13th in egypt and I’m still having the old facebook profile, although some of my friends got the mandatory timeline few days ago, me and few other just didn’t, I’m thinking of switching to timeline, or should I wait?
Well according to me, Menna, switch it only if you feel Timeline is Cool. I personally think that Facebook timeline is better than the Old profile. I am sure you won’t regret it. 🙂 But if you love the old profile more than the new Timeline, then its better not to change as you wont be able to switch back to your old profile once you choose TIMELINE. Choice is yours 🙂
Well, it’s 18 August in the United States of America and I awoke this afternoon to find that I have finally been switched to The Timeline. At present, I am not entirely sure how I feel about it…
Hi Alex,
It’s time to get a good Facebook Timeline Coverpic Now. I am sure you are going to like the change. Keep visiting 🙂
Sanjib
I only got forced to get Timeline today, Aug 18th, and I’m in Canada. Looks like they’re doing it gradually over the month of August. Meh, I have no problems with it. It’s neat being able to go into your activity log and checking out old posts.
I really don’t like the new timeline, cover and also the year feature. I want the old profile back which i think is better than timeline.
Actually it depends that whether you are comfortable with Timeline or not. What i think is that Facebook should not have made Timeline as compulsary for every one. But then to have uniformity among every one it made it compulsary.
Hello Pratyasha
You are right. Facebook should not have forced everyone to accept the Timeline feature. However, i feel that timeline is cool to have and this gives your profile a better look than the old one.
Sanjib
Is it really so ? One of my friends is still having the old Facebook profile.