{"id":4749,"date":"2011-12-15T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4749"},"modified":"2011-12-15T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T03:55:00","slug":"thoughts-on-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4749","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just enabled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/story\/2011-12-15\/facebook-profile-timeline\/51971576\/1?loc=interstitialskip\" target=\"_blank\">the new Timeline feature of Facebook<\/a>. Here are my initial thoughts: If you are someone like me, who (a) doesn&#8217;t post a lot of status updates (especially creepy or ones that can be mistrued), (b) doesn&#8217;t have a lot of pictures, and (c) doesn&#8217;t put up a lot of personal information (such as employment history, relationships, etc.) with dates&#8230;. it&#8217;s tolerable. It makes it easy to go back in time and see what you posted.<\/p>\n<p>If, however, you are like the typical Facebook user, sharing far too much information with the world that shouldn&#8217;t be public in the first place&#8230; if you put your entire resume on the site.. if you update your relationship status everytime someone looks at you&#8230; if you are tagged by lots of other folks in drunken pictures or compromising positions&#8230; this is going to freak you out. <\/p>\n<p>My advice: Make sure your privacy settings are tamped down well. Friends only, or at most friends-of-friends&#8230; if you trust your friend&#8217;s friends. One caution on that: remember that the privacy is not the friends list at the time the post was made, but today&#8217;s friends list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just enabled the new Timeline feature of Facebook. Here are my initial thoughts: If you are someone like me, who (a) doesn&#8217;t post a lot of status updates (especially creepy or ones that can be mistrued), (b) doesn&#8217;t have a lot of pictures, and (c) doesn&#8217;t put up a lot of personal information (such <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4749\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}