Managing your Facebook Timeline Quickly

So you now have Timeline and your starting to realize what a mammoth task it is to tidy up that profile or yours. Deleting and removing those drunken posts/pictures from your uni days.

I've had timeline since it was announced and have just put off sorting my timeline out as I just knew until every one could see it I wasn't that bothered about my old posts.

Though come this week facebook will start rolling it out to everyone, giving you a full week to start sorting your timeline before your friends can start stalking your past, and we all know which friends will be spending hours looking at your past, stalkers!

If you haven't got timeline yet, visit https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline and scroll to the bottom and activate timeline.

You will see your timeline when your visit your own profile, here is mine as an example:



You can then start scrolling down and seeing all your history, and no doubt will find stuff you don't want to see anymore.

So for example I don't want this post to be shown on my timeline any more:



You can then select: hide, delete or remove



Now if you only have one or two posts, or only joined facebook this week then you wont have too much to worry about. Though most likely you will have alot of stuff you need to hide or delete, for example all posts from the odd friend you knew at university who you don't want to me aasociated with any more, hense the unfriend the day you graduated.

So here is what I suggest (and the major reason of this post).

How to quickly manage your timeline.

Just below your Cover Photo you will see a button called "activity log"



Then you can see an overview of every year in the past



Select a year you want to look at. Make sure you just click on the year and not a month.

Now its worth making sure you just see what your interested in removing only. For this example I'm using posts by others on my timeline (wall)



Now you can see a list of all posts that have been posted on my timeline (wall) by others. Next to each post you will see a small circle. Clicking on this circle will prompt you will all the options on this post, such as hide, delete etc.



Unfortunately you can hide or delete every post from an individual but this is by far the quickest way to tidy up your timeline. Remember this is an example for posts by others on your timeline so make sure you check photos and your statuses to make sure those drunken pictures you don't want to be seen aren't seen!

Hope that helps

Data Visualization With A Twist

ome lovely examples of how data can be visulised beyond the old pie chart:

Wefeelfine: http://www.wefeelfine.org/index.html

Visual thesaurus: http://www.visualthesaurus.com

Orange Cinema series:http://www.orangecinemaseries.fr/evenement/universeries/en/#

Look to the moon: http://looktothemoon.com/#/cloud_of_words/

I wish: http://twistori.com/#i_wish

Follower distribution map: http://twitarium.com/_nakamura/

Lullaland: http://www.lullaland.net/

Any one got any other examples at all? Please share

Mini Want, Why?, What?, How?, What If?

A little random, but this is something that was explained to me today on a course, and I rarely see something and think now that’s great and simple. This is a very simple (and my doodled version) of what is slightly more complex approach to negotiations and influencing people.

Was told it was by KOLB but seems he did a little more of this for L&D according to http://managementpocketbooks.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/whywhathowwhat-if/

Any one know who exactly created this model for influencing? Would be really interested in finding out more

Who’s responsibility is it when you use a social media site to notify people of your location?

The other day I became major of my local William Hill, though at this point I would like to point out that I’ve checked in twice and usually just because I’m tweeting something side splitting funny my girlfriend says when choosing a horse or a football team.

When it posted to my twitter followers that I was collecting my winnings from William Hill, it got me thinking, who would be responsible if I got mugged when leaving William Hill?

I don’t intend to answer the main question as I’m clearly not anyone with an ounce of legal training. Though my initial thought was that its the users risk, as they have made the choice to check in. However I think there are a few things to take into consideration.

Does it change once I leave the building?

You could argue that its the same as stealing? Is the risk the venues while I’m inside the building and once I step over the boundary line does it become mine? As it is the case with theft, its only theft once you cross the boundary and before hand its conspiring to commit theft.

My view point on this is that its still the users responsibility. I think this is the case with some one looking at your check in history or favourite places.

What if the venue/event is offering you an incentive to check in?

As they are offering an incentive, are they making you declare your location and therefore taking on the risk? Or it that still the users decision to take up that offer by checking in? I think you then would go into a more complex area of checking in, would it depend on the incentive. I can imagine if its 10% off then it would still remain the users risk, but then it would change if the incentive was something free or better service. Though this level of blurred grounds would cause a lovely legal grey area.

What if the venue isn’t official?

Is it the responsibility of a brand to make sure that all the venues/stores are listed correctly? If not is that exposing the business? Then you can start to dig down even more, you can start to take into account opening hours and whether the business is responsible for every check in even when the place is technically closed.

All these questions are still unanswered and I would imagine they will remain that way until some one brings it to court, as per usual!

I am a big fan of foursqaure and have been for over a year now, admittedly I did close my account one when I lived in Leeds due to some immature users checking in to my apartment complex, I mean who cares if your the major of ICE Apartments? Foursquare has given me some fantastic tips over the last year, and more recently some great deals. I must of saved over $100 while I was in America last, including free wings, discounted beers and best of all BOGOF mini golf (a huge family activity, made even sweeter that @jackgrimley and I won every game!). So I will keep on using it, and accept the risk, I mean I go into William Hill, that pretty much shows I can tolerate risks!

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