Apps Bring Your Timeline to Life
Facebook announced 60 new apps for Timelines this week, and with further extension of the Open Graph, there will be plenty more on the way. Essentially, that means developers will have the opportunity to create the apps they desire and add them to their timelines. With this opportunity, the possibilities are endless. The whole idea of adding apps to Timelines really amplifies the “social factor” of the initial idea.
While Timelines themselves are an innovative idea, allowing people to pull in other parts of their social footprint really changes the game. Users will now be able to pull in their Pinterest app, eBay, Foursquare and Airbnb, plus so many more. This is truly an example of our social footprint coming full circle–our world is becoming truly social little by little.
There is some question as to whether or not this is taking things too far. Questions surrounding whether we are too connected, too comfortable on the Internet and over-sharing with people that we do not even really know. I do think it’s a valid question and it brings up some interesting points, but when it comes down to it, this is the future. Our generation, and generations in the future will expect to be able to connect all of their social networks and to track their social footprint with the ease of a click. What do you think? Are Timelines offering an amazing new way for us to be even more social? Or are they setting us up to be less connected with one another?
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