(from YahooNews!)
Facebook's more than 800 million members will now be able to convert their profiles to the new Timeline design.
The world's largest social network announced Timeline
in September, and now it's available worldwide. The feature replaces
current user profiles and dramatically overhauls how information is
shared on the service.
"It's a way to tell all the important stories from your life on a
single page," Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said when he
announced the new feature at his company's F8 Conference.
Timeline shows all the updates a person has added to Facebook since
they joined the site. It also follows the social network's desire to
provide users with a single place to showcase what has happened in their
lives over the years.
Aside from a prominent picture at the top and basic information below
it, Timeline has a right sidebar listing years in chronological order
that you can click on to see what a user shared on the site, who they
made friends with, and other information for any given period. Timeline
even includes a map where people can input where they've been around the
world.
Facebook said this morning
that people can head over to its Timeline information page and turn the
feature on. Upon doing so, they will have seven days to review their
timelines and decide whether certain photos or wall posts shared on the
site over the years should be shared or kept hidden from view.
I loaded up Timeline this morning and was immediately hit with a
sense of nostalgia. I went back to updates and posts friends put on my
wall years prior. In many cases, they were things (and events) that I
had long forgotten. But Facebook hadn't. And now, my friends and I can
relive some of those moments.
Aside from that, I was pleased with Facebook's decision to let me
customize just about everything in Timeline. If there was something I
didn't think should be shared any longer, I simply made it private. And
if certain information was worth sharing again, I made it publicly
viewable.
Inevitably, some folks will complain about Timeline's design
and Facebook heaping major changes on its user base. But from what I've
seen so far, it's a solid update. It offers privacy features, it comes
with a nice design, and it makes getting to know people (in the virtual
world, at least) a bit easier.
Facebook said it will automatically push the timeline live seven days
after someone signs up for the new feature. However, if folks are
content with what's shared after reviewing it, they can push it live
themselves at any point within that period.
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