Facebook's Timeline: All My Favorite Mistakes, Organized

In the six years since I joined Facebook, I've had two jobs, seven apartments, ten roommates and three boyfriends. I moved from Nashville to New York City. I started and completed graduate school. I began working at TIME magazine. And, according to a comprehensive survey of my status updates, in 2008 I spent a lot of time watching the TV show Felicity.

I know all of this because I recently spent six hours scrolling through every update, comment, YouTube video and photograph I've ever posted to Facebook. I didn't do this because I'm narcissistic — well, not that narcissistic — but to prepare for Facebook's new Timeline feature, which the social networking site will force on its 800 million members in the coming weeks. (Right now, it's still optional.) Timeline reorganizes each user's digital life as a reverse chronological activity list, neatly organizing everything you've shared on Facebook for all of your friends and subscribers with just a few mouse clicks, unless you manually change it. The content has always been there, of course. But until Timeline came along, it took some dedicated Facebook stalking to find it.

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