Facebook Timeline, an entirely new kind of profile is now available everywhere worldwide. I’ve been playing with my Facebook Timeline for some time and love the creative aspect of this upgrade — especially the new cover photo you can upload to customize your profile like the Griswald Christmas Lights shot I used below…

To upgrade to the new Facebook Timeline, go to Facebook’s Introducing Timeline page and click “Get It Now”. Alternatively, you can wait until you see an announcement at the top of your profile and follow the intructions.

Once you get timeline, you’ll have 7 days to finesse it before anyone else can see it. It’s easy to hide or highlight whatever you want and you can go back and change who sees a post, delete it or just hide it from your timeline.

For more information visit Facebook Timeline Help Center Page.

Great advice from Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz…

OK, deep breath: If you dont already have a Limited Profile list, click on “more” next to “Lists” in the left-hand column and then click “Create a list.” Name it “Limited Profile,” “Professional contacts,” “Creepers,” whatever. Now surf on over to “privacy settings” under the arrow thats always on the upper right.

Read the whole post here…
How to handle unwanted friend requests – CNN.com

Thanks for sharing Lori Bromley!

Facebook will make its long-anticipated move to go public between April and June 2012, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Monday.

via Facebook Will File IPO as Early as April 2012 [REPORT].

My coaching clients and those who listen to me speak about social media have heard me say over and over again not to trust technology — ever. I caution people that although the delete button may appear to delete the information you’ve typed, it’s no guarantee no one will see it or for that matter that the information won’t be archived somewhere.  With that said,  I was very surprised recently how many posts I chose to delete when I upgraded to the new Facebook’s new timeline which is about to be imposed on everyone.

Timelines is just one of the many things announced in their F8 update and you’ll want to actively participate in.  I have many concerns, and just found a post which summarizes the problems and tells you how to protect yourself. It’s called 3 Fights to Expect When You Get the New Timeline.

Amongst the recent new changes to appear on Facebook, there is a “ticker” (a rolling real time list of what your friends are doing).  This great piece by Naked Security does a great job explaining what you can/should be doing about it.

You’ve always been subscribed to friends. Now you can hear from journalists, celebrities, political figures and other people too even if you’re not friends. It’s easy, just click the Subscribe button on someone’s profile to get their public updates in your News Feed.   For each person, you could hide all game stories, see just photos, limit updates to life events and more.

To  enable readers to subscribe to you, go to: https://www.facebook.com/about/subscribe.

Google Maps for Android has been updated to version 5.10.0, which brings two new nifty features: the ability to attach photos to Place reviews and the option to see Places you’ve rated with 4 or 5 stars in your map view.

via Google Maps for Android Now Lets You Add Photos to Reviews.

Only 50% of U.S. Adults Use Social Media http://mashable.com/2011/08/26/adult-social-media-stats/

……….which means 117 million adult Americans are using social media. Heck, I’d even settle for 11.7 million.

Only 50% of U.S. Adults Use Social Media

mashable.com

Social media is not ubiquitous. In fact, says a Pew Internet Survey released on Friday, just half of U.S. adults are logged on to sites like MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn.

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via Facebook (1).

Tucked near the end of Facebook’s 1,200-word blog post detailing a slew of privacy changes was a short obituary for a Facebook feature unveiled with great fanfare last year: Facebook Places, a check-in service that allowed users to share their locations on Facebook and redeem coupons.

Facebook quietly admitted that it would be “phasing out” Places, which had been available only on cellphones, while at the same time expanding the ability to add locations to posts by allowing users to tag cities, venues and landmarks in everything from status updates to Wall posts using any device.

Read the entire post via Facebook Axes Places: Who Will Miss It?.

“Around The Web” Feature on Facebook Pages Shows Foursquare, Other Location Links.