Facebook Timeline – Review

I have often felt that what is not on Facebook (FB) is not there and the new timeline just makes my faith stronger.

Timeline is Facebook’s new “YOU” to the world. It replaces your traditional profile page – the one with your headshot and a smorgasbord of personal musings, photos and other items to share with friends. Instead of just a snapshot of you today, Timeline is supposed to be a scrapbook of your whole life.

But these highlights are culled from what Facebook sees as important – the stuff you and your friends have chosen to write or post photos about over the years. So it’s crucial to spend time curating it, so your life doesn’t come across as vain. If you’re not careful, you also might reveal skeletons from your past to more recent friends.

One more disadvantage which it brings on the table for all the mongers there, the information isdisplayed on profile is restrictive in nature, if a user is interacting with his friends on the friends post then at times it may not be visible to the surfer of the time line.

So what does that mean? Nothing, all you Lover Boys there can peep into your Current or Exs profile just like normal, but u wont get to see all the details.

Once you’re ready for Timeline, you have a week to airbrush your life before it replaces your current profile. That’s not a lot of time when you have (cough, cough) years of your life to go through. I suggest focusing on the years since you joined Facebook. You can always add photos from childhood later.

To set up Timeline, visit http://facebook.com/timeline. Facebook will force you to switch within a few weeks, so don’t procrastinate.

Making a splash
Start by choosing a cover photo, the image that will splash across the top. You can choose a sunset, your dog, a hobby, anything that reflects who you are. Keep in mind the dimensions are more like a movie screen than a traditional photo. A close-up portrait of your face won’t work well, but one of you lying horizontally will.

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Your old profile photo will still be there, but it’ll be smaller.

If you haven’t done so already, you can add where you’ve worked, lived and went to school. If you specify years – such as when you started a job – those items will be added to Timeline’s stream of life events, even if they took place before Facebook’s founding in 2004.

You can also add other life events to the stream, such as when you broke your arm and whom you were with then, or when you spoke your first word or got a tattoo. By adding them to Facebook, you signal that those things really did happen.

More on the stream
The timeline stream is your life on Facebook in reverse chronological order.

At the top are your recent status updates, comments from family and friends, photos you’re in and events you’ve attended. As you scroll down, you’ll get highlights from last month, then earlier in the year. Scroll down even further for last year, the year before that and so on. Click one of the “Show” links to get all posts from a particular month or year.

Beyond that, you may see details about high school or college. A colleague even saw the birth of her younger brother listed, after having told Facebook which of her friends were her siblings.