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Guest MattP

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Just added the Timeline feature, makes it far better IMO.

DB11

DB11

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It's changed?

Not noticed much if anything.

The layout I have is what my brother has had for weeks. They must roll the changes out slowly to different 'groups' of people (how they group you I don't know lol)

m00nie

m00nie

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It's just when you see a million status' of people really having a good moan like it's the worst thing that's ever happens to them, I think it's a bit sad!!

People moaning about changes to Facebook need to take a serious looks at themselves.

some irony in there somewhere :whistle:

m00nie

m00nie

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Is it just the top right going to "Name" home downward arrow that's the new layout?

the new mini news feed on the right that shows you what your friends are commenting.liking etc..

the original news feed has slightly changed also.. uploaded pics are now fairly large.

CKB

CKB

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Just added the Timeline feature, makes it far better IMO.

How do you add it?

MikeyT

MikeyT

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Facebook 2.0 is here – but is it any good?

Mark Zuckerberg has announced big changes for Facebook - we take a look at what you can expect.

So Facebook just became "the new Yahoo!" and/or "the new Spotify" and/or "the new MySpace" (and/or all three all rolled into one) depending upon which tech industry analyst or observer you choose to listen to reporting from Facebook's F8 developers' conference on Thursday.

Nice-sounding straplines, for sure, but do they even come close to summing up the significance of the many new changes and additions to everyones' favourite social network announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg? Let's take a look at what's new.

The key announcements: what you need to know

Basically, there are three key things that you need to know about Facebook 2.0.

Firstly, Facebook's new Timeline feature allows you to quickly and easily look back upon your entire online life, so you - and your friends - can quickly access important moments from your past, such as the day you got married, the day your first child was born, and so on. It's a much more visual version of your profile, but still customisable so you can make a big deal of the stuff you love and hide the less important stuff. You can even go back and add things retrospectively - posting pictures that you didn't at the time, for example.

Secondly, with Facebook's new Activity Logs, the social network promises users that it will be much easier for them to delete info and photos they don't want others to be able to see in the Timeline, or tweak the privacy options so only those they want to see their content, can.

Finally, and perhaps coolest of all, there are loads of new social apps that are designed to let you and your mates more easily share what you're doing, in association with the new real-time ticker.

This includes the ability to listen to and share music online in real-time - with Spotify, Mixcloud, Deezer and a number of other music services now available for music lovers to stream music within Facebook. When a friend is listening to a track, it'll appear in the ticker. Click it and, if you have the app they're using, you'll be able to listen along with them.

There are also easier ways of reading news stories your friends have read, (UK apps include The Guardian, The Daily Mirror and The Independent), and watch your favourite videos and art (with new apps such as Artfinder, myvideo and Dailymotion). All without having to leave Facebook.

This also means the moving away from the rigid Like button - you can now 'do' anything on Facebook. App developers will be able to use a verb that best suits their content.

"You don't have to 'Like' a book, you can just read a book... You don't have to 'Like' a movie, you can just watch a movie... You can just eat a meal, you can hike a trail, listen to a song. You can connect to anything in any way that you want," explained Zuckerberg at F8.

Music feeds the Facebook love

For music lovers, the Spotify partnership with Facebook is a particularly cool new addition and one which many current and new users of the tune-streaming service are genuinely going to get very excited about and use a lot.

"Music is one of the most social things there is," explains Spotify's founder and CEO, Daniel Ek. "That's why for the past couple of years, we've been obsessed with what the next-generation music service should look like. We knew that the service had to be free to draw people away from piracy. Helping them to listen to even more music. To do that, we also knew that the service would have to be inherently social. There couldn't be a better place to do this than Facebook."

In terms of what this means for your daily Facebook experience, you will now suddenly start to see lots more music posts and 'play buttons' scattered throughout your regular news feeds. If you want to listen to something that you find a friend has, you simply click on play and the music starts, with no need to exit Facebook or open up any third-party app.

This is, let's face it, an absolutely genius move because, while many tech geeks have been using Spotify ever since it first launched in the UK in February 2009, many, many millions more on Facebook have remained annoyingly unaware of its existence and its ability to let you listen to almost any music you like instantly and for free (for the most part, if you don't mind a few ads).

Spotify wins, as it gets shedloads more users and traffic. Facebook wins, as it encourages millions more users to share their favourite tunes online, within Facebook. And, most importantly, music fans win, because the move encourages more listeners to use a legitimate streaming service, instead of stealing music from dodgy torrent sites.

The future

Looking back at the bigger picture though, and fast forwarding to 2020 when we all cast a nostalgic look back at the early history of the internet, perhaps the (still) young Zuckerberg's long-term vision for the future of social media will have proved to be far more significant than Yahoo!'s, Spotify's and MySpace's contributions combined.

Zuckerberg told the F8 crowd that, now that many of us have our Facebook connections in place, "The next five years, the next era, is going to be defined by the apps and the depth of engagement."

The new Yahoo!? Don't make me laugh! If Mr Zuckerberg's long-term plans come to fruition over the next decade, Facebook could well become the new internet.

After all, if you can hook up with all your friends, family, work colleagues and other online contacts and pretty much do anything you (virtually) like with them - listen to tunes at the same time, watch a movie together, or simply share your latest experiences or your most treasured memories, then why would you bother going anywhere else?

Such as, for example, outside your house or flat. Remember that?

The Doctor

The Doctor

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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/facebook-unveils-'turdline'-201109234339/

Unveiling 'turdline', founder Mark Zuckerberg predicted a new era in sharing and connecting.

He said: "You use your smartphone to take a photo of the food you're eating which is then sent to your news feed. Then, when your digestive system has done all of its incredibly cool stuff, you can show everyone your amazing turd."

Zuckerberg said the photos would appear in the Facebook 'news ticker', adding: "You'll be on your page, connecting and sharing, and you'll be like, 'hey, Andy's late for work, Beth has just booked a holiday, there's Jenny's latest turd, Dylan's worried about his cat'.

"And by networking pictures of our turds we can begin to talk and share and connect about what they look like and whether we need to change our diets.

"Are they floating? Are they a bit soft? Or are they just a hellish, watery mess?

"And if you haven't posted a picture of a new turd in more than 24 hours then the people you connect and share with will notice that and poke you with their favourite constipation remedies."

Users of the 'beta' version of turdline have been impressed. Emma Bradford said: "Last week I was chatting with my friend Tanya while playing AngryFarm and then up popped this photo of what looked like a Mars Bar that had been left out in the sun.

"It was my friend Zoe's brand new turd."

She added: "It was strange at first but after staring at it for a few seconds I was like,'you know what Zoe - that's a really lovely shit'. And then we chatted about it and later that day I started posting my shits. I feel a lot more connected now."

Zuckerberg said developments in Adobe Flash and HTML5 will mean that within a year Facebook will be able to support live streaming so your friends can see the turd as it emerges from your anus.

He added: "Then we will have entered the amazingly cool era of instant turd chat."

MikeyT

MikeyT

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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/technology/dislike-logging-out-wont-stop-facebook-spying-on-you/story-e6freaal-1226147471815?sv=f6892754ae7e4a3d2c31b43426d1eee9

FACEBOOK users have given a big thumbs down to the social networking site after it emerged their web activity is being tracked - even after logging out.

Australian tech expert Nik Cubrilovic has revealed that when you log out, Facebook merely modifies the cookie, it and in some cases installs new ones that send user information as you continue to surf the web when you log out, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Every time you log in to Facebook it installs what is known as a “cookie” in your browser which tracks your activity on the site, sparking massive online fury.

Deleting cookies – a how to guide

“Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit,” Mr Cubrilovic wrote in a blog post.

Protect your Facebook privacy - a how to guide

“This is not what 'logout' is supposed to mean - Facebook are only altering the state of the cookies instead of removing all of them when a user logs out.”

Whenever you visit a website that contains a “like” or “share” button – or any other Facebook app, your information including your account ID is sent back to Facebook, Mr Cubrilovic explained.

The only way to protect your privacy is to delete all of your cookies.

However all this is of little consolation to angry users vented their fury in online forums, saying their privacy has once again been violated by the social networking site.

One Facebook user @ScreamMinaj wrote on twitter: “Now Loading ... Facebook Is Just Plain STUPID Now -_- *Deactivates Account*”.

Another user @emsexton wrote: “Freaking woah, Zuckerberg. You are out of control”.

A number of applications and plug-ins have surfaced in reaction to Facebook's new makeover and the privacy implications that come with it.

Google Chrome has created an app called Facebook Disconnect which removes the news ticker from your page when you use the Chrome web browser.

Firefox's “ShareMeNot” add-on also prevents third parties from tracking you until you actually click on the “like” or “share” button.

Mr Cubrilovic said the news showed Facebook needed to be more transparent about its privacy settings.

“Facebook are front-and-centre in the new privacy debate just as Microsoft were with security issues a decade ago,” he wrote.

“The question is what it will take for Facebook to address privacy issues and to give their users the tools required to manage their privacy and to implement clear policies - not pages and pages of confusing legal documentation, and 'logout' not really meaning 'logout'.”

Fox92

Fox92

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Logged in today for the first time in about a month. Anyway, it is a new layout again. Very confuzing.

Don't fix what isn't broke, but I'm not to bothered because I don't go on it anymore unless I get an e-mail through that someone has wrote on my wall or something.

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MikeyT

MikeyT

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20090328-71/anonymous-facebooks-going-down-november-5/

The more Facebook seems to dominate the world, the closer it seems to be to its end.

Earlier this year, there was dastardly nonsense being peddled that Facebook would shut down March 15. However, now we have news of an apparently credible threat.

It comes from Anonymous, the interesting group of people who express their principles in an activist way by infiltrating the systems of the unsuspecting or the merely complacent.

The Village Voice has pointed me to an Anonymous press release that states quite unequivocally that Facebook is going to get it on November 5.

Should that date not be dear to you, it is the day when British people let off fireworks to commemorate Guy Fawkes, a man who felt the passionate need to detonate Britain's Houses of Parliament.

For those who haven't bothered with British history (short version: a lot of colonizing, eating meat, and pretending to be friendly), you might have seen Guy Fawkes immortalized in the fine movie "V For Vendetta".

Anonymous' press release is candid to its core. It declares: "If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacy."

It then offers an interesting accusation: "Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria."

There follows a hearty disquisition about how Facebook allegedly owns your information, regardless of whether you delete your account, and makes money from it.

Anonymous makes very clear which side it believes Facebook has made its bed and laid its skateboard. It says: "Facebook is the opposite of the Antisec cause. You are not safe from them nor from any government. One day you will look back on this and realise what we have done here is right, you will thank the rulers of the internet, we are not harming you but saving you."

I know that, for many, Facebook will represent a slightly different target than those receiving the hacktivists' attention before--such as the International Monetary Fund, News Corp., or the Iranian government.

The question, though, on the lips of many, may be why Anonymous has given Facebook notice. You may also wonder whether Facebook is quaking, whether it has taken any precautions--and whether, perhaps, in the spirit of sharing, it has reached out to Anonymous to broker some sort of truce. (The offer of a super-duper fan page, perhaps?)

I have, naturally, reached electronically in Facebook's direction, seeking answers to these prewar questions.

It will be troubling if, come November 5, your Mom can't post pictures of the twins' birthday party. Are the hacktivists more powerful than the company that allegedly espouses "hacker culture"? That might make for a very good movie.

MikeyT

MikeyT

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Why do people keep posting on Facebook "Going to live in London for 5 months" or "Going to live in Las Vegas for 12 months" and other various ones. What the feck is all this about?!

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StanSP

StanSP

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Facebook has changed and said nothing (again). Take a look at your URL (top box on your screen.) If you see "http" or just "www", instead of "https", you DO NOT have a secure session & can be hacked. Go to Account Settings - Click Security on the left top corner - click Edit next to Secure Browsing, Check box, click Save. FB has automatically set it on the non-secure setting! Do everyone a huge favor, copy & re-post.

m00nie

m00nie

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Why do people keep posting on Facebook "Going to live in London for 5 months" or "Going to live in Las Vegas for 12 months" and other various ones. What the feck is all this about?!

another girl thing..they did the bra one, the chocolate one

the month there born is location.. i.e january London.. the date is the length i.e 1st 1 month..

what they dont realise is thing like this tell everyone there dob.. social engineering at its easiest..

Rincewind

Rincewind

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Facebook has changed and said nothing (again). Take a look at your URL (top box on your screen.) If you see "http" or just "www", instead of "https", you DO NOT have a secure session & can be hacked. Go to Account Settings - Click Security on the left top corner - click Edit next to Secure Browsing, Check box, click Save. FB has automatically set it on the non-secure setting! Do everyone a huge favor, copy & re-post.

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