Comments on: Facebook Timeline Gives Away Your Age in Spite of Privacy Settings

By: miranda

miranda — Sat, 21 May 2016 09:26:09 +0000

In reply to omg. this works for me! thanks

By: Facebook Timeline Thrusts You into the Participatory Web. Be Prepared. | Andy Sternberg

Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:32:48 +0000

[…] Your age: Even if your profile is set to only show the month and day (and not year) of your birth it will appear on your timeline. It may even appear to date you as older than you are (for me it says 2000s, 1970s, Born; I was born in 1975). More on this here. […]

By: omg

omg — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 01:56:22 +0000

In reply to Andy Sternberg. Mine did that too. I just figured it out. If you go to 1970's and it happens to be blank, just add an event only you can see. Then, delete all events under 1970. Reclick on your page, and it should be erased from your vertical timeline.

By: Letta Mego

Letta Mego — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 21:03:32 +0000

In reply to Gillian.

I hate them…. and this made me even madder…..so I just lied about it…

By: Blue

Blue — Wed, 29 May 2013 20:30:26 +0000

Dear “Please Help”,

I think the best help I can offer you is to suggest you delete your Facebook account right away and never look back. I’m almost at that point myself, but I got sucked in a few years ago and it’s hard to back out once you’re embroiled.

I truly hate Facebook and its endless, brazen privacy violations. The market is ripe for a new platform that gives USERS control over their privacy – come on programmers/developers, the world is waiting…

By: Please Help

Please Help — Tue, 28 May 2013 13:12:07 +0000

I recently signed up for Facebook but never posted any stories. I finally think I fixed it so that it doesn’t show my birth year, but it suddenly started showing a year that is just a few years from my birth year on my timeline. In other words, my timeline has “Born” without the date, then this other stupid year, then the present year. I never added any Life Event that could be attached to it. That extra year they included out of nowhere has no stories attached to it and certainly Facebook wasn’t even around then. There is no option to delete that year. It seems that Facebook is angry that it couldn’t show my birth year, so it chose a year close to it that I see no way to delete. Including that year seems to just have the function of making me look old. Please help. Please give detailed instructions for deletion. I don’t know my way around Facebook very well yet. Thanks in advance.

By: pattim

pattim — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:25:13 +0000

Does anyone know how I can remove my year of birth completely from FB? My issue is that it syncs with Mac contacts including the year of birth even though I disable year in my timeline. Thanks !

By: carolin stevenson

carolin stevenson — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:20:07 +0000

have done edit &saved not to show bthdy on timeline – only have android phone – no pc – still shows – where’s data protection laws when u need them – sooo annoying – didn’t have this prob until fb update – help

By: Mark P

Mark P — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:26:56 +0000

I blocked the year of my birth for privacy reasons

but my full birthday with year is showing when I click on the About me box
at the top right in history
and in my birthday info…

Do not care to disclose this
and it could help facililtate ID theft etc…

By: Andy Sternberg

Andy Sternberg — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:54:43 +0000

In reply to Gillian.

Go to your profile, at upper left click on “About.” then scroll down on the right column to “Basic Info,” click “Edit.” Under Birthday you can select how detailed you want the display to be.

Hope this helps!