Is Facebook's Timeline Teasing You Or Your Friends?

Facebook is displaying reminders of events in your friends' pasts.

A reader sent us the screenshot to the right, showing a Facebook reminder about a friend’s past work experience.

We see this reminder as something possibly generated by timeline, which encourages users to input major life events from the past.

If the reminder does come from timeline content, well, that would jibe with the ongoing efforts to improve the forthcoming profile upgrade before a live beta test, which has been postponed by a week.

But this item is also reminiscent of Facebook’s ongoing tests of modules that remind people of their friends’ past status updates.

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