Facebook’s new Timeline and Open Graph apps: How to protect your privacy
February 06, 12 by Brad ChacosLove it or hate it, if you're a Facebook user, the new past-sharing visual Timeline (which replaces your profile page) is in your future. Timeline's bringing big-mouthed friends to the party, too, in the form of "Open Graph" apps. These apps can automatically post your non-Facebook online activities onto your Facebook Wall, so if you listen to a song on Spotify or read a Washington Post article after installing their respective apps, your Facebook friends are notified of all the specific, juicy details. That's bad news for closet Britney Spears fans! The good news: most of the sharing options that privacy-minded Facebookers are concerned about can be disabled -- and we have the details how.