
Lawyers...
I thought another company was suing them over the concept and they had already called theirs a "timeline"?
Kiwis are the guinea pigs for Facebook's Timeline feature, which the company announced in September with a lot of fanfare, but is now cautiously rolling out to users of the site. New Zealanders are the first to see Timeline show up in their Facebook accounts. We're guessing that means at least one million people in that …
I am an Aotearoan, and having had a couple (so far, literally) of my friends adopt the timeline, I am very much underwhelmed. It looks cluttered and busy and garish. Living up here at the top of the world has its advantages, but being first to suffer the Timeline is not one of them.
My Timeline has arrived and, well, its not bad but I'm struggling to see the point of it. Perhaps it will grow on me over time.
Comparing my timeline to those of my friends, one thing is obvious: it works better with lots of photos. It turns out I've only ever loaded one photo (other than my profile pic) onto Facebook and so now that is the centrepiece of my life, apparently. I don't think this will inspire me to upload several gigabytes of pictures but I might be tempted to find one or two selected ones just so no-one thinks I am actually a ginger cat (whatever was I thinking?).