What is Timeline?
Timeline is your new Facebook Personal Profile.
You’re going to love it.
How to get Timeline Right Now:
Timeline will be available to all users in the coming weeks. Thanks to an excellent article written by Techcruch.com, you don’t have to wait.
Follow these steps:
1. Log into Facebook
2. Type “Developer” into Facebook Search Box
3. Select the Developer App – then allow.
8. Once you have completed these steps – go back to your personal profile and you will see a notification for the new Timeline. Click “Get it Now”.
The Building Blocks of Timeline
Cover.
A Cover is a 720px photo that is positioned at the top of your timeline.
Date Range
To the right of the Cover Photo is a menu of dates. By selecting a month or year, you can quickly jump to that date to see your past activity.
About Section
In this section you can view your friends, photos, contact information, check in’s, subscribers, subscriptions, likes and apps.
Viewing more details
You can drill down to view more details by clicking on any one of the categories. Below is an example of what happens when I click on Map to view where my friend Laurie has checked in.
A New Class of Apps
Beyond Games. A new class of media and lifestyle apps will begin to emerge. Netflix is a great example – once you authorize the Netflix app, your friends can see all the movies you watch in roll up on your timeline.
Stories
Below your cover photo, is your stories.
This is your new Facebook wall.
All of your most recent stories will be visible when a person visits your timeline, when they begin to scroll down, Facebook will filter your stories and only display the important ones.
How is Timeline Organized
Timeline is organized in reverse chronological order. Starting with a complete list of your most recent stories and then as you move back in time, only higlighting the important stories.
To view all of your updates for any month – you can click on show all stories at the end of the month.
Timeline also uses blue dots to denote important updates and gray dots to denote less important updates.
You have the ability to filter your content by selecting the view activity button.
You will be brought to a page that will allow you to sort your stories by type
Editing your Timeline
Adding Content
When you hover over the timeline a “+” symbol will appear. When you select it – you can add a story to your timeline.
In addition to adding status updates, photos, videos, and places – you can now add life events. Such as buying a dog.
I added my own important life event.
Meet Edgar.
Removing Content
Simply click the pencil icon and you can hide a piece of content from your timeline or remove it.
Highlighting Content
To highlight a piece of content as important. Click the star icon on the top right hand side. The content will expand to the full width of the timeline. This is a great way to showcase the important content for any of your friends who visit your timeline.
Privacy Settings
Timeline makes it easy to change who sees your content. By selecting the globe icon you can change the privacy settings of a story.
Final Thoughts
If you want to add, delete, feature or change the privacy settings on any piece of content – you can do that.
You are in complete control of your Timeline.
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