Twitter and Facebook are making some changes these days that may affect you! Twitter has made the decision to delete certain posts if a country requests it. Now you don’t have to be worried because their goal still remains to protect free speech online as much as possible, and as long as you do not post any comments such as the pro-Nazi tweets that France and Germany have asked twitter to delete, your words are safe. Some people say that the compliance to delete tweets is blatant censorship, but Twitter does not have much of a choice in the matter if they want to stay operating in those countries. And by the sounds of the deleted tweets, I don’t think that they are something that most people would like to read, so the tweets would not be missed.
Facebook on the other hand is making a change that will soon affect everyone who is on Facebook. The company is making the new layout, called ‘Timeline’, mandatory for everyone to have in the next coming weeks. This means that you want to get rid of anything incriminating that you may have in your past. The new ‘timeline’ feature makes it easier for people looking at your profile to access your past photos, posts, and comments.
When Facebook changes your profile, you will be notified of the change and then have seven days to delete content that you don’t want. This time period is crucial because after it ends, you may not be able to delete some of your old posts. In order to make sure that your timeline is the way you want it, you have to go through each post and photo individually and either leave it, or change it by deleting it, editing it, or monitoring who can see it. I know this sounds time-consuming, but it will be worth it in the end.
Click the link to learn more about timeline! http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline
