What Does 'Timeline' Mean?

[ FACEBOOK CULTURE ][ ATTENTION ECONOMY ]

FORCE: Attention EconomyUNIVERSE: Facebook CultureCLUSTER: Social Graph Discovery

The chronological, scrollable feed format for a user's own profile activity, replacing the earlier Wall layout with a structure organized entirely around time rather than a simple message board.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Scrolled all the way back on my timeline and found posts from over a decade ago."

LORE & ORIGIN

Introduced by Facebook in 2011 as a redesign of the profile page, restructuring a user's entire posting history into a chronological personal archive, a format later adopted broadly across social platforms.

FIRST SEEN

2011

PEAK POPULARITY

2026 (Facebook Era Canon)

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

Related To:Facebook Wall News Feed

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

中文 zh-CN时间线 →日本語 ja-JPタイムライン →한국어 ko-KR타임라인 →Español es-EStimeline →Português pt-BRtimeline →Français fr-FRtimeline →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

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CULTURE CATEGORY

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MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

2011

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