A simple guide to the new facebook timeline
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The document provides a simple guide to Facebook's new timeline feature. It explains that the timeline allows users to view all posts from when they joined Facebook in a chronological format like a scrapbook, rather than just recent posts. It provides details on key aspects of the timeline like the cover photo, vertical timeline, ability to add past events and milestones, and customized privacy settings to control who sees different elements.
A simple guide to the new facebook timeline
- 1. A simple guide to the new Facebook timeline
- 2. The evolution of online life The way we use the internet is evolving. We now interact in online space in a way we never used to. The internet is becoming a space where we express ourselves.
- 3. We started communicating online first through email. Email represents an online version of sending a letter.
- 4. Then we joined Facebook and created a ‘profile’.Your Facebook profile is a bit like your family fridge. You put stuff on it and allow others to put stuff on it too.
- 5. Now Facebook has changed how your profile works. Instead of a fridge, it is now more like a scrapbook – showing past and present things from your life.
- 6. Old Facebook profileNew Facebook timelineOnly shows recent postsAll posts viewable to all friendsOnly shows your life’s activities since you joined FacebookA single column for your ‘wall’Shows all the posts you’ve ever madeYou can now choose who specifically can see whatYou can update your status to show what you were doing in 1982 (or whenever!)Your ‘wall’ is now a double column
- 7. A quick tourThis is the cover photo – you can choose whatever you want to go hereHere’s your timeline, click on a year to jump to it
- 8. View at the top of your profile
- 9. Your ‘wall’ is now in two columnsThe line running down the middle is a vertical timeline going from the current time down to the year you were born.
- 10. New ways to update your statusWork & educationFamily & relationshipsLivingHealth & wellnessYou can add events from the past as well as current things.Milestones & achievements
- 11. For example: add a pet’s story
- 12. Control who sees whatYou can especially highlight something in your timeline to appear in ‘widescreen’ over both columns or hide it so that it won’t appear.
- 13. Go on a nostalgia tripBrowse your old posts. This is great fun – look back and see what you were doing on Facebook in 2008 for example.
- 14. Enjoy your new timeline! It’s a different way of thinking about your Facebook profile. Think of it as your online life scrapbook. You have more control than you used to have over who sees what and how you arrange your information. Let me know if you have any questions! http://facebook.com/vahva
- 15. Image acknowledgementsPillar box by Johnny English on Flickr.Fridge by Dutch Astrid on Flickr.Scrapbook by Reneero on Flickr.