Facebook has been repeatedly associated with an intelligence tool. Now it became the perfect weapon. The new Timeline interface integrated in the profile page displays all your activities from when you were born until today.
Timeline is a chronological sorting of events associated with your account: likes, change of status, comments and any other activities are sorted chronologically by year and each year includes the 12 calendar months grouped as a sub-category.
This way, your girlfriend (or wife), can find your dubious past with one click, they do not need to search for hours to find out with whom you’ve had relationships before and where you went. Your boss can also find very easily what were you doing at work, but also outside office hours, starting with your first job – if you were “social” on the Internet at that time.
Sure, all information is available with your will. Nobody forced you to publish it. And even if you think all is well, chances to have slips are huge. A simple comment, a change of status or an “innocent like” at the wrong place and your status is compromised. The activity doesn’t have to be from today or yesterday. Anybody could access it through your timeline for the desired timeframe with a click of a mouse.
So, after activating the new interface, we recommend you do a review of all your activities and don’t give up potentially compromising information.
At this moment, the Timeline is activated only after a process that spans through several steps. Our opinion is that the users have to test it now to become acquainted with what you have to expect in the future.
More than likely, Zuckerberg will activate at some point the default interface and users will be caught off guard by the new change.
We note that at present, only the users who activate the timeline feature can view profiles of other users with the new interface developed by Facebook.