What's this new "Facebook Timeline" and why is it such a big privacy issue?

[abraXus]

it's just a different look for your profile that categorized everything you have done on facebook chronologically, making it easier to see things that lots of people apparently didnt realize where still part of their profile from years ago

it doesnt change any of your privacy settings at all when you convert, in fact, the timeline adds additional privacy controls the regular profiles didnt have - but the people who dont like the timeline just dont seem to realize that yet - they see something new and automatically hate it because they have to relearn it again

and no, it doesnt suddenly make everything you have public if it wasnt set to public already... despite what anyone says... those thoughts are coming from the people who didnt realize that all those old status's were all permanently saved in their account