Facebook Timeline: 5 Minuses

1. Your life out in the open:

Timeline puts your life out in the open like never before. Unlike the earlier single webpage design where older content - shares, status updates, notes, likes, comments, photos and notes - kept getting buried under labyrinths of time, Timeline's scrapbook interface has now given an excellent tool to people to datamine others' Facebook.

This may not be such a great news for those not keen on sharing each and everything from their life with everyone. So before rushing to publish your Timeline, it is advisable to spend hours and hours reviewing what content you don't want to share, and delete or remove from Timeline. You get a week before Timeline will automatically go live on December 23, even if you decide not to publish.


2. Misses Friends list privacy:

For those who always kept their Friends List private, Timeline is a curse as it prominently displays just how 'popular' you are on Facebook and who all are connected with you. There is no apparent way to turn it off, unlike earlier settings.

This may be a major put-off for those who do not want to share their Friends List with all and sundry for various reasons.


3. Users vulnerable to identity theft:

Facebook Timeline allows users to compile and let others see everything they have shared so far, from photos, stories to shared videos, music etc. It is kind of a scrapbook of your whole life. And this very fact makes it also dangerous.

As any mismanagement of personal information on the site can backfire. As if a user does not protect his personal information online, it will be the best place for hackers to steal personal information. It makes one vulnerable to identity theft and other such threats.


4. Hide post in batches:

So far Facebook gives users no way to star or hide posts in batches. Suppose, a user wants to delete a certain number of posts for say a particular month or a year, there is no way he can do that all at once. He is required to go and delete all individually.


5. Seven days too less

Facebook is giving users seven days to review everything that appears on their timeline before anyone else can see it. However, seven days are exactly not sufficient. Especially, for heavy Facebook users. It is extremely difficult for a heavy Facebook user to sift through all his postings in a seven-day period.
Facebook spent months developing Timeline, however it's giving users just seven days.