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Public Opinion Rejects Facebook Timeline [INFOGRAPHIC]

SodaHead Infographics February 03, 2012 15:00:00
Not two months after Timeline was released as an optional Facebook upgrade, the network has announced it will become mandatory sometime around... now. Those of you who haven't already switched over can expect a mandatory update some time in the next week or two. Facebook is being vague with the dates, and it probably won't hit everyone at the same time. People are already scrambling to hide unwanted posts that will inevitably reach out from beyond the Facebook grave as soon as Timeline is activated.

Several months ago, when Facebook was making smaller changes, we polled SodaHeads to find out what they thought. The result was mass disappointment. But this isn't a "smaller change." Timeline is a massive visual and organizational overhaul that could potentially change the way Facebook is used. At a time when the media is already reporting a drop in U.S. membership, it seems like an incredibly risky move to make. We polled SodaHeads on the incorporation of Timeline to find out who likes it -- if anyone.

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  • sash February 11, 2012 04:38:26
    sash
    +10
    I have not logged on to FB in months. FB is the best way to find out that the majority of your family and friends are boring, obnoxious, stupid, desperate for attention or that you just don't like them.

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  • Amenda Alexander 1 day ago
    Amenda Alexander
    You should have given us a choice to use the Timeline or not. Stop trying to be a dictator. And stop messing with it and messing up the games by messing with it!!!!!!!!
  • Tami 4 days ago
    Tami
    +1
    quick messing up Facebook. The timeline is the worst. Can't you just let the home page be and stop trying to get fancy all the time.
  • matt29073 May 03, 2012 00:53:02
    matt29073
    +2
    FACEBOOK TRIED TO CHARGE A MONTHLY FEE BUT OUTCRIES OF THREATENING TO QUIT FB STOPPED THAT. NOW THEIR M.O. IS TO SCREW UP YOUR FORMAT SO BAD THAT YOU'LL PAY $110 TO FIX IT BY CALLING THEIR TECH HELP AT 888-216-8304 WHICH IRONICALLY IS ABOUT WHAT 2 YEARS WORTH OF SUBSCRIPTION THAT FB WANTED TO CHARGE US ALL.
  • matt29073 May 03, 2012 00:50:19
    matt29073
    +1
    TIMELINE IS A SCAM! THEY ARE TRYING TO GET FB USERS TO PAY $110 TO GO BACK TO THE OLD FORMAT WHICH TELLS ME IT CAN BE UNDONE. CALL THE FACEBOOK TECH HELP FOR YOURSELF AND SEE.1-888-216-8304
  • Jack Deltr May 01, 2012 23:54:10
    Jack Deltr
    Ah finally found out WHY Time line is SO bad at least for ME.
    Im in a fairly Rural area and Internet is well Sat Dish or Mobile Phone both are slow average for me 200kbs though they say 400 is Pos ??[yes we are pushing the rang of out Phones and no they do not work with out external long range ariels] Now Ive been here on FB with this log in name since july 2007 and my FB page if you bring it all up is over 5Mb and its easy to see it will not work well if at all and if I do use it Ill soon go over my monthly limit on Downloads and that is Expensive so basically I can not use Time line on any site over a few months old even If I did like it
  • teldor April 11, 2012 06:12:06
    teldor
    +3
    Hi :D ... I see there is a few people and pages trying to do the same thing ... Get enough Likes to get Facebook to notice .. well we can do that by all sharing each others pages ... and hopefully we'll get 1 or a couple with enough likes to truely request to have facebook removed .. check out mine if you wish ... http://www.facebook.com/remov...
  • Andrea Hackett April 02, 2012 02:34:18
    Andrea Hackett
    +4
    been on Facebook since 2008... hold classes and webinars on it... at one point I spent nearly all my time on it... with Timeline I'm considering deactivating my accounts. I've already scrubbed all my personal data. It's just not fun anymore.
  • kesatori February 29, 2012 18:49:07
    kesatori
    +3
    For the record I do not like the new Timeline and do NOT want it. However, I am not worried about anything I have posted in the past because I have used common sense and not ever posted anything really private or personal.
    Timeline will totally eliminate all your privacy, not that it ever REALLY existed in the first place...
    It is, after all a SOCIAL network, and it blows my mind that anyone would post anything on it they do not want the entire world to see.
    I contacted a friend after she posted something on her wall that could have put her in jail ~ esp. since she had her settings on "public". That status update showed up on a google search of her name.
    At the very least failing to utilize the privacy settings that have been available all along is the equivalent of writing a very private letter, nailing it to a tree outside of your house, then expecting no one except your friends and family to read it.
  • Dr. Thunder February 27, 2012 06:38:03
    Dr. Thunder
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/com...

    IT IS MACHO EVIL STALKER SITE
  • Dr. Thunder February 26, 2012 08:37:57
    Dr. Thunder
    RECREATING THE WORLD FOR GOIA (lol), some PEOPLE are so fricking insane. There is not one decent repugnut candidate, Obama is the 7 headed media control dragon. Harry Reid is some dumb hick from the desert. Date sites are sexual extortion sites. Yet, why is the prize to all of them a MIDDLE CLASS? Rich folks do not care, GOLD IS MORE IMPORTANT then MOTHER EARTH. EVERYTHING is controlled WE live in a POLICE STATE. ONE WORLD ENDS another BEGINS? I do not see a new world, I see the same old thing and same unbearable things over and over. FACE BOOK is PART of the EVIL WORLD TAKE OVER! MASDADA if it comes to that. Most FOlks have no idea about SCALAR technology and how it is possible to control folks minds. Average folks thrive on POP CUlture and live in a world of denial. DO what it takes to play the GAME. WHAT FRICKING GAME? I do not play games. NO FACEBOOK< as soon as I get my data finsihed for my case it is getting shut off.

    masada

    WHERE 2500 Hebrews were murdered by HEROD and ROME - WE WOULD RATHER DIE THE BE LIKE YOU!
  • Rebecca February 21, 2012 02:30:55
    Rebecca
    Timeline MANDATORY??? Crap, just when I'm finally learning to use Faceblah as it is, they go and F%&K; with it!
  • M and Emma February 11, 2012 06:07:03
    M and Emma
    +1
    I don't like the timeline thing... :(
  • sash February 11, 2012 04:38:26
    sash
    +10
    I have not logged on to FB in months. FB is the best way to find out that the majority of your family and friends are boring, obnoxious, stupid, desperate for attention or that you just don't like them.
  • talia-emily govender February 10, 2012 17:59:36
    talia-emily govender
    im on whatsapp
  • Jodie Williams February 10, 2012 07:40:58
    Jodie Williams
    +4
    http://www.causes.com/causes/...

    join our cause if you are a facebook member and hate the facebook timeline!
  • Anonymous February 09, 2012 22:54:55
    Anonymous
    I use unthink.com
    Check it out! you will love it!
  • Glee_ky February 09, 2012 17:41:14
    Glee_ky
    +1
    I like it. You can make your profile much more personal that way.
  • merlin February 09, 2012 14:37:45
    merlin
    +3
    Well if you don't like peanuts! Don't eat them. If you don't like facebook's Time line or were facebook is going! Its elementary! elementary my dear watson Don't use it.
  • sglmom February 09, 2012 07:29:49
    sglmom
    +2
    The only reason I even have an account is that the Organizations I belong to and volunteer with have their schedules of events listed on FB ..
  • merlin sglmom February 09, 2012 14:40:09
    merlin
    +1
    I only use it now to talk to my kids in maine;-]
  • arief Cerberus Lucifer February 08, 2012 22:30:58
    arief Cerberus Lucifer
    no coment
  • rocko February 08, 2012 15:32:06
    rocko
    dont use fb alot anyways
  • Ghostwolf1968 February 08, 2012 15:18:16
    Ghostwolf1968
    Honestly everything you put on the net is out there somewhere's anyways floating around in cyberspace. I can find stuff that I posted on FB from the date I started. Timeline just's makes it easier to find it.
  • Jack Deltr Ghostwo... 3 days ago
    Jack Deltr
    You can only find it if you have the time to put up with it locking up and timing out all the time making the new time line all most unusable I try and go back over 3 years and it just locks up and times out
  • Koshka February 07, 2012 20:10:23 (edited)
    Koshka
    +2
    Timeline makes you have no privacy.
    I don't want people looking what I posted many years ago.
    I also hate the 2 column design. It looks god awful.
    What was facebook CEOs thinking?

    I ended up making a new account so my past posts and statues won't be visible... *sigh*
  • Bat Outta Hell February 07, 2012 13:17:25
    Bat Outta Hell
    +3
    The Timeline sucks. I'm paranoid anyway and so to me, it just seemed like a uniformly organized way for governmemt to easily view things about our lives.. O.o
  • Koshka Bat Out... February 07, 2012 20:11:41
    Koshka
    +2
    I know! It's scary... T_T
  • merlin Bat Out... February 09, 2012 14:42:13
  • Andrew February 07, 2012 06:16:42
    Andrew
    +1
    I think facebook is becoming so two years ago.
  • sai.thriller February 06, 2012 10:11:22
    sai.thriller
    +1
    i juz deactivated my account!!!
    its too much of time waste :P
  • AlunD33 February 05, 2012 16:32:21
    AlunD33
    +2
    Don't like the new time line on FB, AT ALL!
    But, I'm hooked.
  • merlin AlunD33 February 09, 2012 14:44:48
  • ConcordantMind February 05, 2012 09:15:25
    ConcordantMind
    What is the BFD? Sheesh.
  • Concord... Concord... February 05, 2012 09:17:37
    ConcordantMind
    Most of the people whining are noobs who have no idea what they are doing and have never learned a damn thing about computers. So if you move their precious little shortcuts they are devastated. LEARN YOUR PC. LEARN THE NEW FACEBOOK. LEARN THE TWITTER. And while we're at it STFU. :D
  • Concord... Concord... February 05, 2012 09:18:56
    ConcordantMind
    +2
    You are NOT the customers. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT! The advertisers are the customerS!
  • merlin Concord... February 09, 2012 14:48:32
    merlin
    +2
    Damn somebody that thinks for them selves! WoW! they are out there;-]
    Super Rave
  • Jack Deltr Concord... 3 days ago
    Jack Deltr
    Then let the Customers KNOW we the Product are unhappy and will not spend the time to read there adds
  • mylegs Concord... February 07, 2012 12:07:31
    mylegs
    +3
    ...you do realize over half of the people on Facebook got into Facebook because it requires little effort to understand and is simple? I mean that was Facebook's whole idea. It's like selling "easy squeeze cheese" then coming out with a version that requires 30 steps to make (ok not that bad but you get my point). btw mastering Facebook and Twitter will not help your computer skills either.
  • Concord... mylegs February 07, 2012 14:31:37
    ConcordantMind
    It is still simple to use. It's just a little different. Facebook might not help your computer skills but computer skills of any - and i MEAN ANY - degree will help you with your facebooking.

    I'm not saying people need to learn how to get underthe hood and repair the engine but they need to know where the gas pedal is and be able to drive the damn car!
  • Concord... mylegs February 07, 2012 14:33:14
    ConcordantMind
    It makes me laugh that you actually think facebook involves true computer skills because of the "new complex changes." Do you have any idea what "real" computing is like?

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