I was trying out the new Timeline feature in Facebook, and I don't like the way it looks.

How do I switch back to my old profile view?

you can't. also might as well get used to it. this will be the "new" facebook eventually.

It's just like the last time they changed the profile layout. Eventually all of them will look like that, so there's no way to switch back :/

I don't think you can. I switched to the new profile too and I can't go back and frankly, I kinda like the timeline profile.

Haha for the next few days all social networking websites will have people complaining about this new look... like every single other time that facebook has changed. I can't even remember what it used look like in 2007 when I first got it!

Edit: I don't even remember what it looked like before the last time it changed...

What ?? they changed facebook again? I deactivated facebook back in September, and after I did, I heard that they did some changes to the design of it, and now they are changing it again ??

ohh well, MI is better than facebook during the school year

It's not really official yet, it says when I went to change mine that the timeline profile will go live on Dec. 22

I like timeline, but it seems to lag at times. . .

i haven't really complained about any of the changes to FB thus far, but this timeline is really bugging me, I find it a lot harder to navigate thru (for example, when completely trolling someone)

Originally Posted by JEFF_CHAN

I like timeline, but it seems to lag at times. . .

Thats the reason i hate each update more then anything, when they first introduced the live side bar it was glitchy at times.

I also dont see how changing something every 3 months makes anything better. most companies update every year or longer so its less annoying. its like if timmies changed its menu board every 3 months, it wouldnt accomplish much besides annoy people till they get used to it

I really hope that people aren't this intellectually stubborn in life. Seriously, if adapting to new facebook design changes is hard for you, I shudder to think at how you react to changes in your life.

I have a serious issue with more than just how it looks... It's creepy as F*** and it makes that creep factor a lot more prominent. Currently it's not that easy for a friend to go creeping on my posts from 3 years back... But with Timeline, you just click a time and date that you want to see in my past and you can know exactly what I was doing when an where.

While this also makes it a lot more obvious to people that what you post online is floating around forever in cyberspace, Timeline is Facebook's way of making that data a lot more prominent for others to have access to, and that trumps the inconvenience that any Facebook style change has ever brought us.

Originally Posted by mike_302

I have a serious issue with more than just how it looks... It's creepy as F*** and it makes that creep factor a lot more prominent. Currently it's not that easy for a friend to go creeping on my posts from 3 years back... But with Timeline, you just click a time and date that you want to see in my past and you can know exactly what I was doing when an where.

While this also makes it a lot more obvious to people that what you post online is floating around forever in cyberspace, Timeline is Facebook's way of making that data a lot more prominent for others to have access to, and that trumps the inconvenience that any Facebook style change has ever brought us.

Wait, so if i'm understanding you correctly, the fact that Facebook is now making us more aware of the content that we're putting on its website is now a bad thing?

Simply because Facebook's old design allowed us to be blissfully unaware of risks to our privacy does not make it inherently better, in fact the updated privacy options should be lauded for making your data safer and simpler to control.

Originally Posted by mattatmac

Wait, so if i'm understanding you correctly, the fact that Facebook is now making us more aware of the content that we're putting on its website is now a bad thing?

Simply because Facebook's old design allowed us to be blissfully unaware of risks to our privacy does not make it inherently better, in fact the updated privacy options should be lauded for making your data safer and simpler to control.

It's not a bad thing that it's maing us more aware. This is a by-product of the new design. The unfortunate thing is that it has made access to old information a lot easier. Yes, it'more easier for me to get to that old information to erase it's availability, but it's also just as easier for anyone to stumble on years of that information. (Hence: "Timeline is Facebook's way of making that data a lot more prominent for others to have access to")