Tensions Rise Over Facebook Timeline

Everyone's known that timeline would eventually become the official profile on Facebook and yet the news of the imminent switch has tensions rising.

Everyone’s known that timeline would eventually become the official profile on Facebook and yet the news of the imminent switch has tensions rising.

Facebook said it will begin making timeline mandatory in a few weeks, but won’t tell us how many users have opted to upgrade already.

We asked Facebook whether the site decides when to make an upgrade mandatory based on a certain minimum number of people opting in, and got no answer to that one.

Instead, a spokesperson reiterated the official statement already given to us earlier this week, to the effect that the timeline

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