Anyone knows when the facebook timeline is going to start officially for everyone?

[Mark T]

The most specific answer given so far to this is "within a few weeks" - that was from a "Facebook Spokesman" who presumably gave a press conference as "within a a few weeks" has been given now by several online and printed sources.

A few weeks would take us to the beginning of February (or if they stretched it a bit more, Valentines Day).

At the moment it is NOT cmopulsory on the 22nd - however as a lot of people opted to use it on the 15th, THEIR profile WILL be downgraded to Timeline once the seven days grace has been given to remove anything from several years worths of postings (by you AND friends). Not also that all tagged photos go public unless you have specifically said otherwise.

If you have thousands of things to check, then it is quicker to create a new FB account, post the name of it on your account each day for a week so friends can follow you to your new profile - and then close the old one. You start with a clean history and you can also let folks you no longer spend time with go "un-added" rather than the much more personal "unfriending".