Facebook Timeline – Coming Soon, Like it or Not!

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Facebook recently rolled out automatic friend grouping, updated privacy controls, music, movie and news integration, timeline and the real-time ticker. The changes have really transformed the look and feel of the social network. It doesn’t look like all the users demanding a return to the “old” Facebook are being heard, so we might as well look at the future and what the next changes are. One of the new changes that is very interesting is the new Timeline layout that the company has started to beta test and will be available to everyone in the coming weeks. The goal of the Timeline redesign is to make things more readable, easier to navigate, while at the same time opening the door to more complex and engaging apps/widgets. Check out the video demo of it below as you’ll understand what will be happening better by watching this clip.


It looks like Mark Zuckerberg and his crew have gone back to the drawing board and this new version of the Facebook profile is going to bring some more big changes to the table. Yes, this means that the Facebook profile and wall are soon to be no more as they are both becoming timelines. The Timeline allows users to highlight all of the important events, photos, people, maps, and others over the course of the user’s life, with a right-hand tab that allows users to scroll back over the course of a year at a time. We have been told that Facebook gives you one week to clean up your Timeline before it is visible to all your friends. Guess we will have to wait to see how this goes over!

“All of the stories you’ve shared over time just fall off a cliff at the bottom of your (Facebook) wall and effectively disappear,” company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on stage at an event for Facebook app developers in San Francisco, where this story was retold. That, in a nutshell, is why Facebook on Thursday unveiled a completely rethought version of its profile pages: To surface all the events and stories that are hidden from view because they happened too long ago. The vehicle for this lifelong sharing, according to Facebook, is called “Timeline.”

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