Facebook Timeline

Everyone who is on Facebook knows how they are changing everything over to Timeline now to make it more like a story of your entire past life and to include your future memories.


It is explained here...

When I first saw this, I thought it would be a unique and fun change for the Facebook world, but once it arrived and everyone was forced to change, it didn't seem to be much like the explained it to be.  It also seemed to create a look similar to the former popular social media network, MySpace, which is now disliked by most people.  So, why create something that ended up becoming disliked by most people using a social media network site?

The cover photo is a fun and unique way to start off someones page, but after that it isn't to exciting.  Adding all the additional past events to your timeline to tell people about it just seems like too much information to put out on the internet for everyone to see.  I feel like social media networks are beginning to be providing people too much information about their lives, which leads to things like cyber bullying, stalking, and many more.  It leads to terrible fights for the entire public to see as well, which is just unprofessional for everyone involved.

Due to the recall election in Wisconsin between Scott Walker and Tom Barret going on the last few weeks, I witnessed many fights that broke out between Democrats and Republicans.  Politics are a very strong subject to talk about in general, but creating an argument on Facebook about it just isn't appropriate.  I found it very easy to see people's conversations about it that I wasn't friends with because people I was friends with were commenting on it.  It was the middle aged adults that were creating the most drama and it was just embarrassing to see what these people were saying. 

I love Facebook and being able to communicate with my friends from far away, but I would not be opposed to it disappearing as well.  It is a distraction to many people and is proven to diminish grades.  People could be outside spending time with their families, but many chose to stay inside on their computer to go on Facebook.  Technology is great and I absolutely love it, but there are downsides to it as well.  What happened to the days where you called someone to make a time to meet so you could find out who they were face to face? Will it ever be like that again? Only time will tell.