Facebook is bringing Timeline online next week. I decided to get ahead of the curve and do mine now. I haven’t spent much time on it. But I imagine I could: curating, fussing, sharpening, adding. I can see how for many people this could be a very useful feature, a way to bring together their online lives in one place.
But I prefer using tools over which I have long-term control. (This blog. My website.) I would hate to spend a hundred hours fixing everything in this walled garden, getting it just right, and for the FB powers-that-be to decide, Eh, bored now, and put in place yet another design. My work would be wasted.
But I spent an hour yesterday fiddling. Go take a look. Go look at your own Timeline. (GalleyCat has some basic How-To tips.) Make sure to pay attention to the privacy issues like downloadable email addresses and so forth. And don’t waste too much time…
Nicola Griffith 
I mean, if I say “Facebook is the AOL of this decade,” do I sound like a pretentious jerk? I sort of hate Facebook, & I hate Google for deciding that acting like Facebook was the way to go.
mordicai, I liked AOL better.
More @$#%& fiddling.
What Mark said.
Mark, Jennifer, yep. Sigh.
I remember staying up late during the 90's AIMing with friends and pointing strangers to the quote at the bottom of my profile: “What part of 'not interested in guys or cybersex' did you not understand?”
Not sure about Timeline. I've got lots of photos of my parents from the 1940s, and facebook won't let me post dates to anything beyond my birthdate.
Dianne, why not add the photos for your birth 'life event'?