Saturday 17 March 2012

Facebook Timeline? It's a bit bent!

Ah Facebook, how I love it...not.  So useful to keep in touch, and to use to pass on information about myself and my books.  Or so I thought.  Then I saw this new Timeline option, and thought I could add some old pictures of myself to it.  Vanity, I know, but...
It all started so well, until I wanted to go back and amend some stuff.  I noticed at first that sometimes pictures and events on the timeline were there, and then sometimes they weren't.  Then an event for 1953 appeared in 1968.  Finally, a whole chunk of my life disappeared between 1951 and 1958!  I know I had put in some events, and then amended them, but Facebook had wiped them out and wouldn't let me open that section.  Help!  My life between those dates has been obliterated, or at least rendered secret even from me, and feel bereft.  Am I some human version  of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia where events were changed regularly and amendments sent out, often obliterating people from Soviet history altogether?  Have I become an un-person in a  modern version of a Kafka story?
If this blog disappears, you will know the worst has happ....