Facebook Timeline

-Ad- · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:01

I miss facebook when it first appeared and us students were all over it.

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Easy simple and epic. The good ol' days!

dave_beast · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:35

I miss those days also, when it was students only, no mums, dads, uncles and aunties spying on you

nikeair94 · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:54

^Hipsters.

I hate Facebook altogether, yet I can't bring myself to delete it! Ah, f u modern life!

Nexus · 23 Oct 2011 at 01:54

What are people's thoughts on the delay of the launch of Facebook Timeline feature due to Timelines.com claiming it breaches their patent of the usage of the word Timelines?

TheStarkFactor · 23 Oct 2011 at 01:57

Nexus said:
What are people's thoughts on the delay of the launch of Facebook Timeline feature due to Timelines.com claiming it breaches their patent of the usage of the word Timelines?

Ah, so that's why its delayed.

Have had it activated for a while using the developer workaround. I quite like the look of timeline, and how it works, but in saying that, I use Facebook once or twice a week, so I'm not a hardcore user or anything.

TechFunctions · 23 Oct 2011 at 01:59

Not really liking Facebook much anymore, don't like how they have changed the news feeds etc...

Nexus · 23 Oct 2011 at 02:09

Saint2K said:
Ah, so that's why its delayed.

Have had it activated for a while using the developer workaround. I quite like the look of timeline, and how it works, but in saying that, I use Facebook once or twice a week, so I'm not a hardcore user or anything.

Yeah that's the only way I have it activated.

Timelines.com started the dispute and then Facebook didn't launch the roll out on the advertised date. Its all gone a bit quiet now.

Timelines are arguing that more than Facebook potentially causing an unwanted association with their business it's the principal that they have the word and it's purpose patented, while Facebook themselves have the words Facebook and Face and will go after anyone who tries to use them.

All seems a bit silly really. Given that Facebook haven't rolled it out under a new name and it's gone quiet, I'd imagine they are in out of court disputes until Timelines agrees on a price.

DB_SamX · 23 Oct 2011 at 02:13

-Ad- said:
I miss facebook when it first appeared and us students were all over it.

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Messages

Easy simple and epic. The good ol' days!

Erm, all of those things are still here.

/\ndy · 23 Oct 2011 at 15:27

Kerplunk · 14 Nov 2011 at 13:27

So we can now sort by most recent again! yeeaaah

Vonhelmet · 14 Nov 2011 at 13:30

Kerplunk said:
So we can now sort by most recent again! yeeaaah

How do you do that?

Kerplunk · 14 Nov 2011 at 13:34

At the top of the news feed there is an option

Adnams Drinker · 14 Nov 2011 at 13:56

I've had the Timeline ever since the dev workaround was made known, but in all that time I've never had the 'ticker' on the right-hand side of the main screen - is it known to clash with certain browser extensions or something? Just curious, as I can happily live without it - although the Facebook help pages were no use whatsoever in resolving the issue.

I wondered if it was the piddly screen on my laptop, but it doesn't appear on the 24" monitor hooked up to my tower either ...

ScarySquirrel · 14 Nov 2011 at 13:57

Nice

Vonhelmet · 14 Nov 2011 at 13:59

Adnams Drinker said:
I've had the Timeline ever since the dev workaround was made known, but in all that time I've never had the 'ticker' on the right-hand side of the main screen - is it known to clash with certain browser extensions or something? Just curious, as I can happily live without it - although the Facebook help pages were no use whatsoever in resolving the issue.

I wondered if it was the piddly screen on my laptop, but it doesn't appear on the 24" monitor hooked up to my tower either ...

At least once a day, Facebook decides to take over 50% of my processor (dual core) on my work laptop, and I have to call Internet Explorer (mandated browser). IE sucks.

That being said, I'd be glad if I could find a way to ditch the ticker.

Kerplunk · 7 Dec 2011 at 17:00

Hmmm, mine has now gone Live and now have the Timeline as standard

Anyone else? Also when I click other users profiles, its the old one?? Is the idea for only you to see it? :/

Rameses · 7 Dec 2011 at 17:05

Kerplunk said:
Hmmm, mine has now gone Live and now have the Timeline as standard

Anyone else? Also when I click other users profiles, its the old one?? Is the idea for only you to see it? :/

nope? thought I read it starts in NZ first to test and goes live further afield after that..

Smitho3 · 7 Dec 2011 at 17:39

No "invite" for me sadly, have done everything to the letter and have been waiting 5 minutes.

qqg3 · 7 Dec 2011 at 17:50

Kerplunk said:
Hmmm, mine has now gone Live and now have the Timeline as standard

Anyone else? Also when I click other users profiles, its the old one?? Is the idea for only you to see it? :/

I've had Timeline since the announcement at F8

Anyway, you can only see it on the profiles of other users who have Timeline. If they ain't got it, you won't see it.

Has been bothering me for a while because my friends appear to be 50/50 between haves and not haves, so I've had to deal with both the old and the new, gets confusing!

dave_beast · 7 Dec 2011 at 18:32

I had to delete open graph from my developer page as it kept putting my profile into timeline.

Timeline has gone live on mine despite not having any open graph enabled apps, can't see my profile page now

Reported to FB