Updating Your Facebook Timeline Is Now Mandatory

Users WILL update their Facebook timeline say Facebook executives who claim the move is mandatory.The purpose of the excercise is to create a new look for people’s profile page, the only problem is that your entire history will be exposed.

Up till now filling in your Facebook timeline has been voluntary.

From now, users will simply be notified that they are being ‘updated’ via an announcement at the top of their home page, which users click on to activate Timeline.

As with voluntary switches to Timeline, those who are ‘updated’ will have just seven days to select which photos, posts and life events they want to advertise to the world.

Via the official Facebook blog, the site announced, ‘Last year we introduced timeline, a new kind of profile that lets you highlight the photos, posts and life events that help you tell your story.’

‘Over the next few weeks, everyone will get timeline. When you get timeline, you’ll have 7 days to preview what’s there now.

The new look also pairs with ‘timeline apps’, such as Spotify, which post every time people listen to a song, or eat a recipe or visit somewhere.

‘You can learn more about these new features by taking the quick tour available at the top of your timeline,’ says Facebook.

‘If you want to get timeline now, go to the Introducing Timeline page and click ‘Get Timeline.’Or you can wait until you see an announcement at the top of your home page.’