Today I logged in and saw a message "You now have timeline. Preview it before others see it beginning August 14".
Does anyone know if Facebook can move me to timeline without my explicit consent?
Out of curiosity, why are you opposed to timeline?
And I really hate the "inline" ads.
One thing I like about timeline is the discovery when looking at someone else's. It makes it a little easier to grasp what that person is all about in a relatively short amount of time. It's also pretty cool that you can add in significant life events that occurred well before FB (or even the web) existed.
It's amazing we're so willingly giving the details of our 'significant life events' to an advertising company, without any thought to what it means in the long run.
The Timeline seems to be designed in such a way to make it really hard to quickly scan for information, therefore sucking you in for more and more time. It's not surprising, Facebook want everyone to spend more time on the site, it's just a pain.
This reminds me of when SearchKing sued google because they position on SERP's dropped. At some point, people forget that there are multinational corporations behind these massive service. They have no obligation to delight you, or remain consistent in appearance/functionality.