STOP FACEBOOK TIMELINE!!!.

Author: Chrissa Chverchko

Within the "next few weeks," your Facebook profile will be forced to go the Timeline route. The general consensus among the media is that you're either going to love or hate your new profile. Yes, it's more customized, highlighted by the massive cover image that you now have. Yes, it allows you to share more of your life. At the same time, the new Facebook profile is less of a profile and more of a biography, chronicling your entire Facebook history since the moment your joined the social networking site. Critics of the Timeline say that it's information overload. Facebook is well aware that a biography may make some people unhappy. At the same time, the Facebook Timeline was created to please advertisers, not the people using the site...

Facebook is in a social network war against the likes of Google+ and future attempts to dethrone it as the leader. It also has to impress investors for its initial public offering (IPO), which is likely to come in May. Mark Zuckerberg is aware that his site has an enormous competitive advantage with its 800 million Facebook users. However, he is also aware that future sites and technologies will compete with Facebook to take time away from people spending a lot of time on the site. A TIME article noted that people are already spending less and less time on social networking site. To add to that, Facebook user growth has stalled.
Author: Chrissa Chverchko

The best way to counteract such pressures is to force Facebook users to invest more time in their profiles. The more time they spend curating their online scrapbooks and the more they are aware that such a scrapbook exists, the less likely they are to switch to other social sites or engage in some other form of entertainment.

Furthermore, the more information that Facebook users share, the more valuable the site is for advertisers, which can target ads with laser precision. According to Business Week, Facebook profited around $400 million in 2010, numbers which aren't that great. Critics of Facebook's advertising service say that, by its nature, Facebook isn't very valuable to advertisers because people go on Facebook to waste time and not look for solutions to their problems, something which Google does very well. By creating a biography of your life, Facebook is trying to makes its ads more relevant to you, even if you aren't looking to buy anything while using the site. Also, by spending more time on the site and increasing the amount of "like" interaction, Facebook is hoping that its future "sponsored ads" will be a major money maker.

Facebook is trying to present Timeline as a useful feature for its users. The real agenda, however, is for Facebook to be more profitable. There's nothing wrong with that as its profitability will allow it to function for decades to come.




January 31st is the last day that you will have a right to your facebook page. Why should we be forced ONCE AGAIN by people who are obviously out of touch with their subscribers to change what wasnt broken?

Netflix did this and people banded together by the thousands to stand up for what they thought was right...I was one of them...the only way to hurt these power mogers is in their pocket book.

How many of you will stand up for whats right and demand that your Facebook page not be changed to the "Timeline" format without your permission.

Yes its their company but without us it wouldnt even exist..we have the power...are you going to stand by once again and let those in power tell you what you need or will you say enough is enough?!!

I for one will stand for what I believe in and close my account on the 1st of Feburary if the mandatory change is still in effect.

Please like...rate and subscribe to this video and share it with others...together we can make a difference. All it takes is a few to spread the word...will you be that one person who makes a difference?

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[IamSpeechless100]

So Facebook is also changing its layout. Sorry I am not a Facebook users so I was not aware until I saw your video. YouTube is also doing this to us and I hate the new layout it makes me feel like I am in prison with no personality of my own.

[Megadeth72]

fck the timeline

fck new lay out