Erroneous Timeline Warnings Go Viral On Facebook

While Facebook users certainly have the best of intentions in copying and pasting advice about timeline, erroneous information about the advanced profile is circulating among users' status updates.

While Facebook users certainly have the best of intentions in copying and pasting advice about timeline, erroneous information about the advanced profile is circulating among users’ status updates.

The message goes like — well, just look at the screenshot above.

More than anything else, these status updates reflect the level of anxiety about timeline that we’ve observed among users: people worry that suddenly everything they’ve ever put up on Facebook will become more visible than they were before, which we know is incorrect.

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