The new, compulsory feature being rolled out by the world's largest social network remains a point of concern for a vast majority of its users.
A survey from the anti-virus and malware company Webroot found that least 88 percent of consumers say they're concerned about the privacy of their information on their Facebook profile as a result of their accounts being changed over to the new Timeline feature, according to a report from
ZD Net. Those who said they were concerned about it said that their biggest issue with Timeline is that it was a mandatory switch.
However, close to half of those who expressed these concerns also did nothing to alter their profiles once they were automatically switched over, the report said. Another one-third changed their privacy settings to adjust who could see at least one of their activities, and another 17 percent manually deleted updates, images and other content.
Eduard Goodman, chief privacy officer for
Identity Theft 911, writes regularly about the concerns social network users face when putting their personal information online.
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