Facebook Timeline Drills Through Facebook’s Data Floor

Facebook Timeline

Yesterday’s Facebook Timeline announcement was interesting because it blew out the data floor that Facebook has had for years.

Facebook has very little consistent data prior to 2004 when it began. This is obviously a function of technology as a whole, as it’s difficult to gather data from before you started working on whatever it is you’re working on (there are exceptions to this, of course).

I’ve said for a while how interesting this collective memory is that we have stored on Facebook as humans. But that collective memory only goes back to 2004. Facebook Timeline’s main purpose, in my eyes, is to construct the data prior to 2004, which is very cool.

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