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Facebook Scam Targets Users Who Don’t Want New Profile Design

Posted: January 31, 2012

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Facebook recently announced that Timeline, the new profile design, will be rolling out to all users here very soon. For those who don’t like change or the new profile design, well, they’re out of luck as the change is mandatory and can’t be reverted back to the old.

This has upset some users as they claim it to be a breach of privacy, or they just don’t like it to begin with. Because of this, some people thought they could latch onto this fear and scam people in the process. Facebook pages are popping up around this scam and USA Today has more details:

“Many of the pages offer the same promise: a plug-in for your browser that will “disable” the new Timeline functionality. The developers even add helpful hints advising users to ignore software warnings that extensions, plug-ins, and other apps “can harm your computer.” The developers also suggest that you should “allow up to 24 hours for the changes to take effect,” which is a cute way of covering up the fact that absolutely nothing will happen.”

While to the average user that sounds all fine and dandy, it’s a potential way of getting access to your Facebook account or worse, access to your computer and the ability to find all sorts of confidential information. Timeline is not something that can be disabled, period, so keep an eye out for anything claiming to disable the new profile design and make sure to report the page.

What are your thoughts on the new Facebook Timeline? Good/bad?

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Posted: January 31, 2012
Mike Stenger

By Mike Stenger









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74 Archived Responses to “ Facebook Scam Targets Users Who Don’t Want New Profile Design ”

  1. I am sick and tired of Facebook making changes that so many of us don't want.

  2. Carol LaGrave
    Jan 31, 2012

    I don't like it!

  3. Tish Cumbow
    Jan 31, 2012

    Hate the new timeline!

  4. A great BIG Booooo, thumbs down, this sooo sucks, I know what they can go and do with it. It would be different if they gave you a choice……but they don't. Obviously they really just don't give a * (fill in any way that reflects how you feel).

  5. it's no good.

  6. I like it.

  7. Why can't you just leave well enough alone!

  8. I don't like to new set =up TIMELINE-when It becomes MANITORY I will stop using FACEBOOK & switch to someother format & hope my FRIENDS will folow me-thanks for your old format-I REALLY enjoyed that much<3Ginger McCarthy.

  9. why do you have to change something that is working just finr, Iam almost ready to delete my facebook account.

  10. Jill Alden
    Jan 31, 2012

    Timeline SUCKS

  11. Lindsey Glover-Lathus
    Jan 31, 2012

    you cant find anything anymore, if you play games and go on your friends wall to collect things, well youre outta luck cuz it don't show up anymore…this is a sh*tload of f**k.

  12. Chris Cutright Gooden
    Jan 31, 2012

    As so many people absolutely hate this, Facebook should really sit up and take notice and offer BOTH options to their users. They CAN "change" themselves right out of business at the rate they're going. I've already got a Google+ profile and am starting to spend more and more time there. I CAN and WILL drop Facebook eventually if they keep this up. THEY BETTER START LISTENING TO THEIR USERS.

  13. Margaret Federle Wallace Carter
    Jan 31, 2012

    I like it! It was fun setting it up. Change is good, keeps you from getting stagnent.

  14. lol this is funny to me. Everyone acts like choice is as prevelent as it used to me. My friends as the years pass you will notice choice is a rarity. Like Padme said it best in Star Wars episode3 " This is how democracy dies… with thunderous applause".

  15. leave well enough alone. its all b.s. to make it prettier for selling stock.

  16. I like the concept of it -being able to look back through the years. It's a good historical representation of who you were and what you did. It will be cool to have my kids, future grandkids look back in time. Don't love the lay out and will have to get used to it.

  17. Sherrill Flohaug
    Jan 31, 2012

    BAD Idea it looks like cacaca and you can't se all of just what you want.

  18. So sick of Facebook changing all the time..the new timeline is more like myspace .. If that's what I wanted I would have stayed on there instead of switching to fb…I hate it!!

  19. Amy Eno
    Jan 31, 2012

    It would be nice if facebook would let us have a choice in all of these changes they make!

  20. I'm thinking about google + too. I moved from MySpace to Faceboolk because MySpace was making so many changes. Looks like I'll be moving from Facebook now, too…:(

  21. Chris Cutright Gooden
    Jan 31, 2012

    Debi Ritchie And that's something that I really don't even want to do! What I want is to be able to stay on Facebook and keep the format of my information as it is right now – before Timeline. But to me it looks like Facebook doesn't care about the membership that they may lose. Wonder how long it will take for them to become the next "MySpace"???

  22. I hate the new timeline. I'm thinking of trying google + and getting my friends to try it too. I moved from MySpace to Facebook because MySpace was always 'fixing what wasn't broken'…I guess I can move from Facebook to Google if I have too.

  23. Chris Cutright Gooden I agree

  24. Margaret Federle Wallace Carter
    Jan 31, 2012

    AND Facebook is free, quit complaining, delete your account if it is so bad……

  25. I think the new Timeline Profile is absolutely ridiculous, I hate it. Who ever came up with this idea should know that it is a complete miss! Thumbs down!

  26. Please stop screwing with us! You may lose us!

  27. Sylvia DaSilva
    Jan 31, 2012

    I think it sucks and am considering disabling my account. Oh, I know all the nay-sayers out there: "you're addicted, you won't be able to stay off, etc., etc." Oh really? I'm sick and tired of having my privacy breached, and have just started to "unplug" by distroying that annoying little scan card that all the markets issue. I'm sick of having my purchases monitored…big brother can kiss my a** as far as I'm concerned, and if you think I CAN'T stay off FB….well, you just keep watching for me…..

  28. they better watch out before they become the next my space!

  29. Don't have it yet, but what I see of it I don't like it. After reading some of these comments, seems silly for fb to make it mandatory. Like anything else in this world, find something you like and some goofball will come along and screw it up. They got us on here and figure we won't go somewhere else.

  30. I don't like it either and will probably just quit!!!!!

  31. of all my over 100 friends only ONE has the new timeline crap so what dose that tell ya and when I looked at her page I really didn't understand it..it was soooo confusing and cluttered up and really stupid I don't like it at all.

  32. Robert L. Shields
    Jan 31, 2012

    First of all, Facebook is a format, basicaly for 'kids', created by a kid. They forget (..or don't really know, or care) that people of an 'adult' demographic uses Facebook. Timeline seem suited for Jr. High School kids. Not grown-ups.. It's too bad that Google Plus didn't 'get off the ground'.

  33. Hate it

  34. Sandi Martin
    Jan 31, 2012

    I have decided to close my account with Facbook when they hit my account to make it the new timeline. I have started with google+, but have done Pogo for years, too. I do not have to let myself be pushed around.

  35. Nobody likes it… facebook needs to quit changing and competing to be better go back to the old facebook for goodness sake or facebook will be obsolete soon.

  36. Who gave them the right to decide for us

  37. Callie Ross
    Jan 31, 2012

    I absolutely HATE the new Timeline profiles! They're ugly and I hate the layout of them. It's complete crap that we aren't being given a choice, we have to accept it or else. I've really been thinking about canceling my account and this sounds like a great time to do it…

  38. Donna Simonton Miller
    Jan 31, 2012

    I can leave it just as easy as I got on it and I will leave it if it changes because I don't like the new lay out and I don't care if it is free or not it is stupid to continue changing things that are good the way they are. I have a mother 60 something years old who has just now learned how to use this and now this is going to really screw her up and now I will have to get her on something else because she will never see any comments anyone leaves her. thanks for nothing again facebook.

  39. I'm okay with the change! My only complaint so far is that when someone 'posts in your time line' it takes a while to find it. But that is minor and will probably be changed as more users use it.

  40. Marvin Wanda Caldwell
    Jan 31, 2012

    Don't care one way or the other………. try to keep your privacy settings as strict as possible…….. or better yet just do away with it all together….

  41. Dianne Panozzo
    Jan 31, 2012

    So far, I HATE IT!

  42. I don't like the new change either but what choice do you have.

  43. I don't like what I see thus far with the timeline crap. Google+ Think I might check it out. I can't find anything on the few timeline pages I've seen… fb is supposed to be 'fun' not a chore.

  44. No shit it was changing as I was typing!!?? Crazy!!

  45. lthis should be a choice!

  46. it's stupid… i understand it is a free social network but if they want to keep people on it they will leave it be and quit changing it so much

  47. It's stupid and hard to understand because there is so much stuff everywhere..I have no idea how to do it either.

  48. I'm so sure it is coming. They have not set a date as of yet and since there was so much flack with the last change, (I heard that they lost quite a number of users, they might be in a pickle if they do put it in. If people close their accounts as they say they will…which will be more numbers then the last change, they will lose money. They can't charge the fees for advertising if they don't have the numbers anymore. I think if it was coming, it would be here, just like the last change where I heard nothing, just woke up and it was changed. I hope. Because I am not staying either. I don't go to my friends pages anymore who have timeline. hate it.

  49. Deborah Easton
    Jan 31, 2012

    I am tired of reading (and hearing it said) that those who don't like Facebook's new timeline are people who don't like change. It's not change that I'm having an issue with, I do not like the design or the features of timeline. More importantly, I detest the silliness of forced changes such as this. I was sorry to learn that it will be mandatory. So sorry that I am trying to make sure that I've copied and saved the email addresses and contact info for the many friends I've been able to reconnect with on Facebook because I know I will either be moving on or letting my page collect cyber-cobwebs.

  50. Sounds like I am in the minority, but I like the new timeline now that I am used to it. I have had a good time looking back over my last several years on Facebook. I've also had a good time adding pictures and events to my timeline. People are so resistant to change. Change doesn't have to be bad. I changed to timeline intentionally and am glad I did.

  51. Paulette Rich
    Jan 31, 2012

    I don't like the new timeline either.

  52. Gwynne Betz
    Jan 31, 2012

    DON'T LIKE IT FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN ON OTHERS PAGES. I HAVEN'T MADE THE SWITCH AND AM HOPING THAT IT WON'T HAPPEN TO MY ACCOUNT. I MAY JUST HAVE TO DELETE THE WHOLE THING WHEN IT DOES? WISH ZUCKERMAN AND CREW WOULD QUIT WITH CHANGING IT!

  53. Sara Porter Carney
    Jan 31, 2012

    I've seen the new "timeline" and I do not want it! I think they should give us a choice if we want to go with the timeline or stay the same!

  54. Maybe I should start my own social network site and steal all the people who hate the change

  55. ANOTHER company gettin to big for their britches! Google Plus…. here I come.

  56. Sally Lambright
    Jan 31, 2012

    I hate it! can't find anything.

  57. Just remember to re-set your privacy settings and the news feed we read doesn't change. It's pretty painless.

  58. Paula Qualls Gurley
    Jan 31, 2012

    I don't like the look of Timeline. When you have a successful product, keeping changing it until it becomes a flop! Look what it did for Myspace. If they change it too much, I'll either go to google+ or quit altogether. I've already quit most of the games for the same reason.

  59. I'm thinking about starting a Facebook Boycott. Anybody want to join? The people (us) as are the ones who have made Facebook as popular as it is. Why don't they stop and listen to the people for a change. That's the change they should concentrate on!

  60. HATE IT….

  61. Jeffery Lucas
    Jan 31, 2012

    The time line thing sucks and if they make it so everyone has to use it I will drop my account and I will encourage other people in some group to do so also. I all ready have a Google+ so I'll just convince all of my friends to drop face book and go to Google+ it's better any way..

  62. I don't ABSOLUTELY like this Timeline. I want to stay on THIS Facebook and I'm tired of these changes.

  63. Google is making sweeping changes to its privacy policies. Better read all that first.

  64. it is really bad I hate that profile when I go and look at my friends and they have it I cant understand none of it.

  65. Don't want to be forced to use it! That's not what I signed up for!

  66. Karen Cordner
    Feb 1, 2012

    It hurts my eyes. Too much,

  67. Sandi Martin
    Feb 1, 2012

    I do not go to pages unless I am trying to help someone with their crystals…and, like you, I hate it and end up giving up after doing one or two. Normally I do all of anyone that I find.

  68. Pat Bassler
    Feb 1, 2012

    I don't have it yet but others do and I think it makes the page too saturated with old information that was once deleted. If I wanted to keep that stuff I wouldn't have deleted it to begin with. It no longer has a clean look but then when did facebook give a damn about what the users want?

  69. It makes me feel SCHIZOPHPHRENIC!!! Prepare to have a CRAZY biking buddy… No JK.

  70. I used to go on myspace, but then I liked it better here. Now they are changing the things I liked. My page scrolls up every so often on it's own now making it hard to check the home page to see what new things people are sharing.

  71. Me neither. And I am resistant to change.

  72. Sheila Holby
    Feb 8, 2012

    Oh yes, the free social networking site, THAT I AM IN NO WAY OBLIGATED to use, has made a change that mildly inconveniences me. Get over it, people.

  73. I don;t understand why they want to change it. They put it out there so everyone can use it, then the insist on making changes. I do not like the timeline at all..These people, the owners have made tons of money from fb….ugh..leave it alone…