Confusing, annoying, and not needed: those are 3 ways to describe Timeline, the newest update for your profile on Facebook. In competition with Twitter, Facebook threw out a whole new profile look called Timeline, a messy collage of pictures and posts all over the page. To add to it, old videos and pictures from back when you first got a Facebook (or were “born”) are easily accessible, and everybody I know probably doesn’t want that. I mean, who wants everyone to see the obnoxious video you posted on your friend’s wall from 2 years ago?
I’d say that the Timeline is mostly too confusing. It seems like they are almost trying to take away that easy-to-work, simple aspect that it had before. Every time I go to someone’s page, I don’t need to see a large list of people Facebook thinks I need to friend, and double columns throwing all the statuses and posts out randomly over the page like a big disorganized mess. And, while I’m at it, do we really need more than one picture of that person on their profile? I think one is just plenty.
The main idea of the Timeline that bothers me the most: was it really necessary? Nope. I really liked the old profile, because it was simple and easier to comment and post on people’s walls. Timeline was not created because Facebook needed change. It was created because Facebook is trying to keep their users. They wanted to re-engage the people that are no longer interested as much. But the change that they made was not a thought-out one. It seems like it was thrown together at a meeting one day, and they said “Sure, why not…”, and that was that.