I suggest focusing on the years since you joined Facebook. To set up Timeline, visit http://facebook.com/timeline . Facebook will force you to switch within a few weeks, so don't procrastinate. Start by choosing a cover photo, the image that will splash across the top. Your old profile photo will still be there, but it'll be smaller. 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. 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. Posts will be more sporadic the further you go back.
You'll see when you joined Facebook and the first post you ever made — mine was "Anick Jesdanun is wasting a lot of time on facebook." A colleague even saw the birth of her younger brother listed, after having told Facebook which of her friends were her siblings. The bottom simply says "Born" with your birth date and birthplace, if you've chosen to share that. This may come across as a big privacy breach, but keep in mind that people could have seen many of those posts before by continually hitting "Older Posts." With Timeline, you can jump more quickly to older posts. You can change who has access to which posts. You can change the date on a post. For major events in your life, you can click on a star to feature them more prominently.
Years-old posts made by people you're no longer friends with are still there. Your life may also come across as duplicative, such as when multiple friends post similar photos from the same party. Start with your older posts. Open Facebook in a new browser tab first, though. Every time you switch between the log and the timeline stream, Facebook resets to a default view rather than let you return to where you were. Facebook has a secret formula for determining which items are included in your highlights, using such factors as how many friends commented on a post. There's no easy way to highlight something Facebook's formula didn't pick, without starring it such that it gets splashed across the page. There also ought to be a way to star or hide posts in batches.
And oddly, Facebook includes stuff posted by others, but it doesn't include items you've posted on other profiles. Older posts come across as one-sided without the back and forth for context. Facebook spent months developing Timeline and rolling it out to its 800 million users. If you're not ready to start Timeline, you can still view Timelines your friends have already activated. Just keep in mind that Facebook eventually will force you to switch, so you might as well do it now if you have the time. Timeline is Facebook's new way of presenting 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. I suggest focusing on the years since you joined Facebook.
To set up Timeline, visit facebook.com/timeline. Start by choosing a cover photo, the image that will splash across the top. 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. 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. You'll see when you joined Facebook and the first post you ever made — mine was "Anick Jesdanun is wasting a lot of time on facebook." With Timeline, you can jump more quickly to older posts.
You can change who has access to which posts. You can change the date on a post. You can click on a star to feature major events in your life more prominently. Years-old posts made by people you're no longer friends with are still there. Your life may also come across as duplicative, such as when multiple friends post similar photos from the same party. Start with your older posts. Open Facebook in a new browser tab first, though. Facebook has a secret formula for determining which items are included in your highlights, using such factors as how many friends commented on a post. There also ought to be a way to star or hide posts in batches.
And, oddly, Facebook includes stuff posted by others, but it doesn't include items you've posted on other profiles. Facebook made waves last week as the social network finally rolled out Timeline, it's newly redesigned profile, to all users worldwide. Timeline, which was first announced in September, is the most dramatic change in Facebook profiles to date. Once you switch to Timeline, you'll have seven days to make changes to your profile before Facebook pushes it live. Because Timeline makes your past posts easily searchable to all your friends, the first thing you should do before going live with your new profile is clean up any embarrassing or unwanted posts. Facebook doesn't make this task easy. You have three options when you adjust your settings: You can make all your posts friends-only; you can limit the posts by others on your Timeline; and you can review every item ever posted to your wall individually, and set your privacy controls accordingly.
For a detailed step-by-step on how to adjust your settings in these three ways, read: Facebook's New Timeline: Important Settings to Adjust Now. Have Fun With Your Cover Photo One of the most significant differences between the old profile and Timeline is the emphasis Facebook puts on visuals: Timeline's photos are much larger, and the cover photo is no exception. Your cover photo is the long photo that spans the width of your profile. [Want more tips, tricks and details on Facebook? Check out CIO.com's Facebook Bible.] When you switch to Timeline, you'll notice a new button on your Status Update bar: Life Event. If you click on the "Life Event" tab, a menu of categories will appear, each containing a number of options.--Highlight What Matters Similarly, if you want to hide a particular post from your Timline--but not delete it entirely--hover over the post and click the pencil icon. With the old Facebook profile, pages you "liked" and your interests were buried under your Info tab. Timeline, however, resurfaces these and places them at the top of your Timeline, below your cover photo.
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