If you’re on Facebook, then one day soon, you’re likely to get a big surprise when you log on and see how much about you is being shared.

The company is planning to roll out some new “upgrades” and features to its 800 million users in the coming weeks. (So, to all those who griped and complained about the minute changes made about a week ago - that‘s not the end of it.)

One of the biggest changes is that the profile and wall pages will be merged into a timeline - constantly updated with virtually everything about you (past and present), as well as updates about your online activities. You may be shocked by the amount of detail.

The new “Facebook Timeline” is already available to be enabled.

Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of the popular tech-news blog Mashable, recently switched over to the new Timeline profile and says Facebook users will “freak” and “revolt” when they experience the change. 

“I switched my profile over last week and boy was it a shock -- I immediately wanted to switch it back to the old format,” he writes. “Yet I could find no way to switch my profile back, so I stuck with it for a few days.”

In an article for CNN titled, “You’ll freak when you see the new Facebook” Cashmore goes on to say that the changes are the best changes that Facebook has made. This is how he describes the new feature:

“Here's what'll happen once the Timeline profiles are launched: Your Facebook profile will go from having one central column to two, with boxes of text, photos, videos and even maps of your favorite locations. Rather than just displaying your most recent activities, your profile will become a scrapbook documenting your entire life, all the way back to your birth. Facebook will become a record of your existence: All your memories, your victories and your defeats, your loves, your losses and everything in between.

You'll be shocked, as I was, when this change is made. Suddenly your life is laid out before you, the highs and lows somehow pinpointed by Facebook's algorithms. You'll wonder why the status update box is so tiny now, and where all your most recent updates went.”

The social media network is also adding some music and video upgrades, including a new music application with the online music streaming service Spotify. In order to sign up for Spotify, you must use and initially link your Facebook account. After you sign up, every article you read on Yahoo, everything you watch through “Hulu on Facebook” and the tracks you listen to on Spotify will be broadcast to all your friends on Facebook.

QUESTION: What do you think about all the changes that have been made and that are going to be made to Facebook? If you have an account, have you ever considered deleting it? What would prompt you to do so?

Also Read:

• Facebook’s Ticker broadcasts everything you do
• You’ll freak out when you see the new Facebook 
• Did Facebook just change social networking forever? 
• Spotify on Facebook: What you need to know

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