Are you ready for Facebook's Timeline?

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laresMon 30/01/12 22:47

"Unless you want future employers to know your entire history, you need to change your privacy settings, and fast"

"It's all change at Facebook in the next few weeks as its timeline feature is rolled out to all users – whether they want it or not.

This will make it easier for people to dig into your past from your homepage in an unprecedented manner. Pull up someone's profile with Timeline enabled and you can scroll back through their entire Facebook history. Click on a year (say, 2008) and you can see everything they did in those 12 months, including status updates, photos, and wall posts.

After Timeline is enabled (you can request it before it is automatically rolled out), you have seven days to review and edit your profile before it goes live to the world – but this is a positive security step you need to take. The default position is that Timeline will lay bare your Facebook history.

Does this matter from an employment point of view? Well, yes it does. Numerous surveys have shown that employers are using Facebook and other social media sites to vet job applicants. In January 2010, a survey for Careerbuilder.co.uk found that more than half of employers used social networking sites to research job candidates. As the sites have become more popular, the chances are that percentage could have grown.

Imagine your prospective employer uncovers elements of your past through a social media search that show you in a less colourful light than you would wish to be seen. There may be photos of you in a drunken stupor, or ones that identify you as being affiliated to an organisation that does not fit with the employer's ethos"

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