The , combined with other , may result in a little TMI (too much information) being shared. The new Facebook makes it easier to share the book you're reading, the movie you're watching, the song you're listening to, the meal you're cooking, and other information with your social network in real-time.

The concept seems to have tremendous potential to help you actually be more social with your social network. The problem is that prospective employers will be checking out your Facebook Timeline as well, so you need to devote some effort to making sure it paints the portrait of you that you want others to see.

When your current profile is converted to a Timeline it might reveal pictures, events, and status updates from your past that you forgot about--and perhaps some you wish you could forget. Facebook will be automagically going through your Facebook existence to extract relevant bits to populate your Timeline.

If you've been using Facebook for a while, there's no telling what sorts of smoking guns and skeletons in the closet might be revealed. Thankfully, Facebook gives you an opportunity to identify the information you want to promote on the Timeline, and to hide or delete entries you'd rather not have exposed to the world.

The information displayed on the Timeline will have the same privacy controls and restrictions as the same information currently has on your Facebook Profile and Wall. You can choose to allow some elements to be viewable by the general public, while limiting other entries to just family and close friends.