Latest update to iPhone 4.1 application

Facebook has just launched an amazing update for iPhone users that will give the hidden benefits of Timeline. Photos will also get uploaded quite fast and you will not have to wait for getting the excellent profile view. As per the report of AppData, there is 57.6 million of daily and 99.5 million of monthly active users of Facebook. So this update is ought to improve the performance for Timeline. This update will certainly provide the new users with excellent options such as to see the subscribers, to add new friends, to view subscriptions and pop-over notifications. Nonetheless, you will be getting your Timeline profile in just few seconds. This update is usually delayed and it may be due to the fixing of previous bugs for iPhone.

Benefits of using Timeline update for iPhone 4.1 version

• Facebook has tried its best to remove all the past bugs from Timeline application. When you tapped a photo or image, it generally could select anther photo from the same album. It will never occur now.
• The second and most important benefit is that you will be capable of viewing all the requests, messages and notifications on the same screen, on basis of partial-screen popovers. It will make the browsing faster and easy.
• The loading time has also reduced as compared to the previous application for iPhone.

Setting Timeline on your iPhone

• Log on to your Facebook account and click on About Timeline page. You have just to click on ‘clicking here’.
• The user is then needed to click on the ‘Get Timeline’ tab which is located at right side bottom of the page. The contents will be published right now as you choose the Timeline but if you are interested in editing the photo, follow the next steps.
• You will have to hold the cursor on the pencil-like option on the right side. It will offer you two options of editing or removing the specific thing from the Timeline.
• You will get a drop-down menu which provides you excellent option to add location, to hide the timeline, change the date and even to delete the post.
• The iPhone user can also expand and highlight a particular feature on Timeline. This can be done by clicking on the ‘feature’ icon, a start-shaped option. Your image will get spread all over the page and your friends will notice it.
• Given you are well satisfied with the removing or editing options under Timeline application for iPhone, you can just click on the option, ‘Publish Now’. Even if you select nothing on the page, it will automatically get published.

Timeline application from Facebook is very popular for the users of iPhone. The company has recently launched a new update 4.1 which reduces the photo upload and gives you plenty of new features too, at the same time. Setting the Timeline on iPhone is also easy.

Many people who’ve tried it are saying “It’s a good looking intelligent piece of kit but I’d worry about security.” But why?

The Timeline, like history itself, is immutable. Once things are on there, they’re staying on there. It occupies two columns and looking at a past year visitors can view your activity on Facebook, what you said, when, who you friended, events which you commented on, everything. And that’s what seems to be the trouble. Zuckerberg has always maintained that if you’re going to share a single scintilla of information about yourself then you automatically want to share it with everyone you know, (including every company, corporation, government body and NGO you ever visited on Facebook) without exception, right?

I don’t know about you but I don’t necessarily want my mother or little sister to see what I got up to at my brothers stag do when one of his friends tags me in a photo or a status update. Of course I can untag it but by then the damage could easily have been done. So, is Zuckerberg’s opinion a firmly held belief or a convenient notion which is negotiable? Well, almost as soon as Google+ was released Facebook changed its security features so that they reflected the way human beings actually socialize, letting people have separate groups of friends who don’t necessarily interact.

I had a feeling that Zuckerberg was unidimentional enough for him to be able to share his entire life on Facebook and create nary a ripple but fortunately there are others there who appreciate what the real world is like.

Or do they? One of the major criticisms of the Timeline is that it’s a stalkers’ paradise. It puts up SO MUCH of your information which you thought was either inconsequential, hidden or irrelevant into its algorithm that people wanting to track you down, find out personal data, history, relatives who are or are not on Facebook in fact everything that you know that stalking just became infinitely easier. And since people are already so ignorant about online security these changes are a potential recipe for disaster.

Timeline Makes Your History Make Sense

It looks sweet, it auto-creates a chronological narrative to your life which is appealing to see but it contains a lot of information I’d like to keep between me and a select few. Tough. It’s visible to others, if you want to make all new posts private you can and you can remove individual posts one at a time but if you wanted to remove all your posts for 2007 for example, you can’t. You can take them out of the public sphere but your friends will still be able to read them.

Shouldn’t be a problem, they’re your friends, right? OK so you meet some-one at a bar and you add them as a friend on your mobile, some-one added you because you have as many as three friends in common, you friended some-one because you thought they were cute and you’ve been to the same club once. Not just them but people you knew at school but haven’t spoken to for years are all going to be able to read over your history. Not so funny now is it?

Your Virtual Security Becomes A Real Issue

And the security issues don’t stop there. Ever Fraped some-one or been Fraped yourself when you’ve forgotten to log off and a friend or family member has hilariously updated your status, friended wildly inappropriate people and sold all your cows on Farmville? Well, Facebook are in negotiations with various online payment processors which, ideally, will make it easier to do business without leaving the Facebook platform. In future when you get Fraped it could cost you a great deal more than some embarrassment and a great deal of apologising.

The Timeline is all about Facebook’s efforts to move from being a social media platform to an entertainment platform. Their intention is that Facebook should have, or be able to provide everything that you need. First to climb into bed with them on this is Spotify. If you don’t already have an account with them and you want one you can’t get one without a Facebook API. And all the records that you listen to will end up where? You guessed it, on you Timeline. Your Bieber Fever is about to become public knowledge.

The good news is that as a Facebook user you do retain some control. You can make sure Facebook doesn’t publish all of your choices and shopping by resetting all of your security settings, making sure that you keep yourself protected, remembering to do this for every site that allows you to log in using your Facebook API (also bear in mind that Facebook’s permanent cookies follow your activity even when you’re not logged in to Facebook so take extra precautions unless you’ve dealt with them first).

Facebook has always had a peculiar relationship with security, privacy and the right of its users, I suppose one of the sacrifices you have to make when you check the box accepting their terms of use is that in order to keep Zuckerberg and his team in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed you have to accept that your data is a commodity to be shared and sold among corporations. The question is, how much of your life do you have to give up just to keep in touch with your friends?