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Facebook has officially moved to limit the default public exposure of user activity in response to our organized pressure. While the rollout has been adjusted to protect user privacy defaults, we must continue monitoring their policy changes for future automatic updates.

June 10, 2012

Delete Facebook Timeline

Delete Facebook Timeline

🏆 Won — 5,762 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 14 years, 8 months ago
The new Facebook timeline is a massive intrusion to someone's privacy. Facebook is making more and more information public. It is appalling at what they wish to do. Random strangers on the internet might have the ability to uncover plenty of personal, and sometimes embarrassing information about you. This is not fair to casual users of Facebook who simply use it to reconnect with friends. Facebook timeline makes their personal data that they intended to be shared with FRIENDS only uploaded for everyone to see. What's the defence against this? The following is taken from a post on Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/5868411/how-to-use-facebooks-new-timeline-feature-and-hide-your-embarrassing-old-posts "Remember, though, you have 7 days before the Timeline goes public, so if you did want to dig in and go through every year, you could at least spread the work over a few days." Excuse me: "SPREAD THE WORK OVER A FEW DAYS"???!?!?!? ThIS IS NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO SPEND DAYS REMOVING INFORMATION THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE SHARED WITH JUST FRIENDS. STOP FACEBOOK TIMELINE! The creator of this petition is not a troll, and will make sure that Facebook administrators hear of this.

Updates

May 15, 2012

We have reached the five thousand signature benchmark. I am currently finalizing a formal letter to Facebook corporate leadership that outlines these specific privacy concerns.

Reached 5,000 supporters

May 13, 2012

April 30, 2012

The current momentum puts us in a position to escalate this directly to Facebook's policy team. I am drafting a formal letter outlining the privacy concerns raised here to ensure our position is documented by their leadership.

Reached 1,000 supporters

February 9, 2012

Reached 100 supporters

December 20, 2011

11 Comments

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Katie Hart
8 years ago Featured

People do not even communicate face to face or talk on the phone anymore . Most people use social media and it wastes so much time and cuts into family and family time. It has ruined how people interact with each other people. I have never been on social media and will never.

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Itzel
10 years ago Featured

Delete facebook completely. It is not a noble cause and causes great amounts of psychological distress

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Dave Cole
14 years ago Featured

This is ridiculous. I never asked for a timeline feature and I dont want it.

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Sarah Obi
14 years ago Featured

I dont have time to go back 5 years and delete everything i ever posted. They just want to sell our stuff to advertisers.

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Linda Ward
14 years ago Featured

Facebook is getting way to intrusive. Keep my private life private.

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Mike Nichols
14 years ago Featured

BRING BACK THE OLD WALL. This timeline stuff is creepy and I dont want my old photos showing up like that.

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Anonymous
5 years ago

I really think Facebook is the devil in disguise

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Facebook like the media is the biggest problem in this country.