OK, so I have to admit that I still haven’t adopted the new Timeline.  And the main reason why is that it’s my understanding that I’d probably feel the need to “tidy it up”.  You know, hide some stuff, rearrange other stuff etc.  And I’ve just been too busy to set aside time on Facebook to do this.

So, if you’ve already adopted Timeline, how long did you spend making your profile presentable again? 

Was it a 5 minute deal, or a 2 hour deal? or more?

Was it super easy?

@cindy-king I signed up during that early preview for developers and it took around 15 minutes of playing with it, featuring posts using the star, and removing a few that I didn’t want prominently displayed.  I didn’t have much on my profile that wasn’t already public, so I didn’t have any issues with something I meant to be private turning public. 

I took it on early also, but really don’t like the new interface as much. It takes some fiddling to figure out the new settings. Luckily I don’t have TONS of photos to go back and change privacy settings for, but I’m still tweaking and trying to get used to it.  Yergh.

And since most people only interact with you on their news feed or ticker, I don’t go to my profile as much anyway.

I suppose when we’ve really gotten comfortable with this, Zuckerberg will find a way to yank the rug out from under us again (sigh).

I’ve been fairly careful to keep Facebook clean as time has passed, so I’ve had only modest cleaning to do.  But, if you want a quick catchall option to avoid any disasters with the timeline once you switch over, if you click on the drop down menu next to the Home button in the upper right hand corner, and select the Privacy option from the menu, you can access a way to make everything in your timeline a non-public piece of content.

Where is says ’Limit the Audience for Past Posts’ there will be a link to ’Manage Past Post Visibility’.  Click and you’ll be prompted to make the sweeping change.  It does highlight the fact that if you do this change, any posts you would like to be publicly available will have to be gone to manually and changed, but if you’re looking to keep things private or just among friends, this can be a useful option.

Sorry if this was something Facebook prompted via the rollout, I was also an early adopter via the developing option, so this change has come to me differently.

@cindy-kin, you may want to add the function where you have to approve all tagging of yourself. Regardless of how you set your own privacy settings, a tag changes everything. If you are tagged, all of the friends of the person who tagged you can also see that post/photo. Something to think about.

You may especially want to stop tagging in posts/photos that have the public setting…

To anyone who may know:

At the risk of sounding naive, can you switch fan pages to the new timeline or is this just something for personal pages? Either way, how do you opt for the switch?

Thanks Ryan Segovich - Last I heard Timeline was going to be forced on us … tomorrow!  
The only reason I didn’t make the developer plunge is I don’t have good photos.  I’m not worried about privacy – just looking amateurish.
I guess we’ll have to get this done soon enough.  :)

Mari Smith has a great webinar on Timeline that answers tons of the questions that she did back in Sept. It is a 90 minute seminar but extremely helpful. She spent a lot of time ironing out all the ‘kinks’.  I LOVE the new custom background!  What a great ‘piece of real estate’ for branding!  

I was able to add births of children, college and high school graduation and marriage in under 10 minutes with images and descriptions. I also added a few key professional moments like hosting our conference with me on stage with HootSuite and Facebook higher ups which I think is a great way to market without being salesy.
Seems to be a good set up I have passed the 2,500 subscriber mark quickly and I would say my Timeline being complete has certainly helped that effort.
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