Facebook’s change to user profiles has eventually gone live and now you can update your Timeline before it is automatically changed. It’s a huge change to how it all works and many are already complaining. With its first showing in September, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has gone for a complete rethink of a user’s profile page, attempting to turn the data present into a digital scrapbook.
For some the ability to go back in time to their early postings may prove embarrassing but getting Timeline now allows you time to alter previous postings, removing and/or changing privacy settings.
With 7 days to tweak the page before it goes live, it’s an opportunity to design and get things right. If you think you’ve got it right you can choose to publish at any time within the week or leave it to go live at the end of the 7 days.
Your cover photo can now fit across the width of the page, rather than the small square shot previously allowed. This can allow you space to put a more panoramic shot of favourite places or express what you are about.
Although old posts have always been available to view by clicking again and again on a friends profile, now the Timeline lists them in years and months so it’s far easier to go back in time. The privacy settings on the posts will remain the same as when you posted unless you alter them individually, if you feel the need.
Timeline has already tried to guess which of your posts are the most interesting and has made these viewable. If you think a post needs expanding and it hasn’t been, you can expand it. Any item now added to your Timeline can now be given a date so they will appear in chronological order.
Facebook have added a very helpful page called the Activity Log and this is the best place to edit you Timeline. It is accessed from your profile page and every single item from a user is listed here allowing each piece to be deleted or tweaked accordingly. If you don’t want to remove completely from Facebook, you can change the visibility of the post to ‘Only Me’, then only you can see the item.
Facebook is hoping that given the Timeline design people will add to their profiles with before-Facebook items, adding to the already massive amount of data they hold.
Eventually Timeline will go live for everyone, use the opportunity to organise yours so people will see what you want them to see. Make an impression with your page and get to know how it all works.
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