Facebook Timeline: A Walkthrough Of Your Entire Life On Facebook

Facebook just dropped their last bomb at the Facebook in the form of Facebook Timeline. Facebook wants you to tell your story to the world from your personal timeline page, you can use timeline as your profile at facebook.com/about/timeline.

Facebook timeline is nothing but a visual

representation of your life and the events surrounding it. It’s more of a controlled and customized page where you can organize the important stuff and create an online storybook, ready to be used as a reference in case a complete stranger stumbles on your Facebook profile. On your timeline page, you can share and highlight most memorable posts, photos, videos and events that are close to your heart. This is the landing page where people would discover the real person and his journey, described in his own words.

Here is how Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook

timeline looks like:

It is a fact that users daily update a lot on their Facebook profile. From their breakfast

menu to a rainy day, everything is posted on Facebook. Not

all of these updates are important and not all of these things deserve to be

archived. Most of the updates are real time in nature but there are a few

shares which should be archived and bookmarked for quick reference in the

future.

Facebook timelines attempts to

fill this gap by allowing you to customize your timeline page with events,

posts, photos, videos, dates and status updates, which are kind of milestones

rather than “just an update”. When you passed out of college, when you got

engaged, when you received your first salary these are the things you would

like to put on your Facebook timeline page rather than your random rants.

Timeline will help you summarize your stories on a single page said Zuckerberg. Rather than search your entire profile for a really old post, Timeline is the go to place for finding out important stories about a person. It’s the heart of your Facebook experience, completely rethought from the ground up,Zuckerberg adds.

Interestingly, Facebook did launched a story telling feature one year back which fell flat on its face. Back then, nobody used it because people don’t have the time to type their entire anniversary party and wait for friends to engage with it. However, this timeline feature looks really cool, all you have to do is organize your previous updates into a single page and control who can see your facebook timeline.

Here is an introductory video which walks you through Facebook timelines in brief detail:

In my opinion, this timeline feature is geared towards

strangers who would want to be friends with you and want to know more about you as quickly as possible. People don’t have the time to visit your profile, scroll through all the updates and hit the Older postsbutton over and over again. Instead, they want a concise digest which tells who you are and what you have doing from the day you were born to this date.