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September 26, 2011 09:55 pm GMT

Facebooks New Timeline: Data Goes In, But Can It Ever Leave?

facebookAt last week's Facebook developers conference, f8, the company introduced the radically redesigned profile page now called the Facebook Timeline. Instead of a single column stream of status updates, shares and photo uploads, the new Timeline provides a deeper look into your past. You navigate your Timeline through right-side navigation that lets you click into the months and years all the way back to the day of your birth. And with the new "life events" menu next to the revamped status update box, you can fill in the missing pieces of your life's history, including marriage(s), divorce, births and deaths, job changes, moves, medical events, achievements, travels and anything else you want to record. (The latter thanks to the "other life event" option for anything that's not already listed in Facebook's provided drop-downs).The end result, for those who take the time to go back and carefully document their past, is an online digital scrapbook reflecting the major moments of your life. It's easy to do, and the results are compelling. But will you ever be able to pull that data back out of Facebook? Or will it be trapped in there forever?

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