35 Comments »Facebook appears to be cutting the fat on the website as of late. The most recent item to disappear from the website was Facebook gifts. It has now been hidden and you need to choose to have the application displayed in your sidebar. In the past day or so, Facebook has apparently removed the friend timeline. Will it be missed? Probably not. Apparently not enough users were actively using the feature.
Does that mean Facebook should have deleted it? I’m not sure but I’ve already received at least one or two emails from people asking why this feature has disappeared. I haven’t reached out to Facebook but I can assume that there wasn’t much demand for the feature. Additionally, if you weren’t obsessive about entering the dates that you meet people, it wasn’t really a useful tool. I have been fairly obsessive with grouping friends but I haven’t been really specific with entering the dates I met them.
The other problem is that friend grouping was by year and for many people as they meet more people thanks to social technology, there is not enough order in a yearly timeline. While I won’t be missing the lost feature, I’m sure a number of people will. Did you use this tool frequently?
I wonder if they've demoted Gifts explicitly to 'level the playing field' between Facebook-owned and third-party apps? It was a bit 'unfair' that Gifts used to appear on the right-hand side when third-party apps can't make any use of that space.
I wonder if they’ve demoted Gifts explicitly to ‘level the playing field’ between Facebook-owned and third-party apps? It was a bit ‘unfair’ that Gifts used to appear on the right-hand side when third-party apps can’t make any use of that space.
I didnt know it exsisted 0_0 lol
P.S. Gifts were a huge ripoff. Everyone just switched to the knock-off “free gifts” app.
oh so that what the timeline was meant to be used for.
never used the page but when i started with facebook i was one of these obsessed people who wanted to be precise at the time with my contacts when facebook gave the option e.g. if it was primary ed (Elementry to those facebook american folk) or college i whould state it same with if it were a nightclub student occounter or met on holiday in 2003 in france.
Now having 220 contacts and sometimes applications promoting maaking friends adding to these (therefore friends increase all the time)
1 good thing though all facebook application friends since the friends list feature added and privacy appeared those met through facebook 'friends' I add to the 'PrivFBApps' Friend list i made (and in privacy settings specified contact info for example i prefer this group not to ideally have access e.g. IM or landline phone
I didnt know it exsisted 0_0 lol
P.S. Gifts were a huge ripoff. Everyone just switched to the knock-off “free gifts” app.
oh so that what the timeline was meant to be used for.
never used the page but when i started with facebook i was one of these obsessed people who wanted to be precise at the time with my contacts when facebook gave the option e.g. if it was primary ed (Elementry to those facebook american folk) or college i whould state it same with if it were a nightclub student occounter or met on holiday in 2003 in france.
Now having 220 contacts and sometimes applications promoting maaking friends adding to these (therefore friends increase all the time)
1 good thing though all facebook application friends since the friends list feature added and privacy appeared those met through facebook ‘friends’ I add to the ‘PrivFBApps’ Friend list i made (and in privacy settings specified contact info for example i prefer this group not to ideally have access e.g. IM or landline phone
Nooooo! Perhaps I'm a stickler, but this was the only reason why I actually filled out my friend details to a “T”. I actually enjoyed being able to see who I've met from year to year…
Nooooo! Perhaps I’m a stickler, but this was the only reason why I actually filled out my friend details to a “T”. I actually enjoyed being able to see who I’ve met from year to year…
i used it all the time
Oh no, I really loved the timeline, even if I didn't watch it often I really thought it was fun.
i used it all the time
Oh no, I really loved the timeline, even if I didn’t watch it often I really thought it was fun.
Yes!!!! Why they remove it?
I was one that keep track using the dates
Yes!!!! Why they remove it?
I was one that keep track using the dates
First to the lowest part of the “more” section of friends, where almost nobody could see it, and then offline… that is how it goes, isn't it ?
With my app (attached) I have put a link to everyone's social timeline to make it more popular, yeah it was even possible to view the timeline of friends with timeline.php?id=..
What I have on the title page of it was the friend game,
that was a little quiz about who had what hobby of your friends. That is gone now as well!!!!
–> http://www.facebook.com/friend_game.php
Was definately working a few weeks before.
First to the lowest part of the “more” section of friends, where almost nobody could see it, and then offline… that is how it goes, isn’t it ?
With my app (attached) I have put a link to everyone’s social timeline to make it more popular, yeah it was even possible to view the timeline of friends with timeline.php?id=..
What I have on the title page of it was the friend game,
that was a little quiz about who had what hobby of your friends. That is gone now as well!!!!
–> http://www.facebook.com/friend_game.php
Was definately working a few weeks before.
im so mad. is there an email address we can send complaints to??
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LOVED this feature.
Removing it was not the right thing to do. Promoting it was.
Since this is related… A creative way to ask for Friend Details that might have worked: While you’re talking on Facebook Chat, if it sits idle for a while, ask the user what year they met the person they are chatting with, and if they respond, ask them how they met… something like that.
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LOVED this feature.
Removing it was not the right thing to do. Promoting it was.
Since this is related… A creative way to ask for Friend Details that might have worked: While you’re talking on Facebook Chat, if it sits idle for a while, ask the user what year they met the person they are chatting with, and if they respond, ask them how they met… something like that.
Gutted. Really used this all the time - not sure why they removed it. Was great seeing people over the last 30 years…..
Gutted. Really used this all the time - not sure why they removed it. Was great seeing people over the last 30 years…..
This was literally my favorite thing about facebook.
Argh, I used it a lot as well.. Really disappointed after entering hundreds of years - now for nothing..
Argh, I used it a lot as well.. Really disappointed after entering hundreds of years - now for nothing..
never got to use it…weird that the guy above me used Z before i could. these comments were dead for 2 months
never got to use it…weird that the guy above me used Z before i could. these comments were dead for 2 months
i want it back!!
I used it regularly…wish the timeline would come back!
I've been desperately searching the timeline and wondering where they hid it.
Now everybody: Timeline back! Timeline back!
Being bruttaly honest i dont like facebook!
Awww… I really miss it! Nice to look through it and remember when you met people and how.
That’s what makes me so angry! It’s not supposed to be used frequently. It’s a nice little morsel of happiness that you reach for in that small, seemingly unimportant moment in which it is needed most. How much energy would it have required to keep it going? That’s the question.
Did having a timeline have such a negative impact that it had to be removed because not enough people were using it? I really don’t think so. Rather annoying now that I do want to use such a feature.
They need to bring back the timeline… I used it and i thought it was a great feature. I wish I could find out when a certain friend was added also.
I also want it back, anyone able to create an app to pull the stored information and recreate the effect?