As Facebook rolls out its new Timeline design, some users have noticed that there’s no longer a way to display events they’re attending or view the events their friends have RSVP’d to. A Facebook engineer says this is a bug and the company is working on a fix.In the old layout, users could access an events tab similar to what is currently available on business and fan pages. With the redesign, which only applies to user profiles, tabs have a new look and several new ones have been added for movies, books, fitness and apps. Events were part of this when the company initially launched the new design, but at some point in the past two weeks it stopped working.
Facebook product engineer Bob Baldwin answered a question on Reddit today about the issue. He said there is a bug that events lead Ed Maia is working to fix before re-enabling the module.
[Update: Privacy advocacy group Europe-v-Facebook.org explains when events were part of Timeline, they revealed a user's past events, which had not been previously available to a user's friends or other users. The group says it notified Facebook of this issue and events were subsequently removed from the new Timeline. ]
Screenshot from Matt Navarra.
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