If you haven’t heard, Facebook is going to be rolling out with a new feature called “Timeline.” It is a feature that will allow people to basically look at a summary of all of the time you ever spent on Facebook. As you go farther back in time, the summaries get smaller and smaller.
The platform that it is built upon is called open graph. It will allow for much better and much more improved business integration and it will allow for businesses to reach the eyes of potential users like never before. The only question is: How will the Facebook users respond to the new system? Will they like it? Or will it send a mass amount of users to Google Plus as soon as it gets launched.
I have had a chance to get the first glimpse at Facebook’s new Timeline that was revealed at the most recent f8 conference. It is actually pretty easy to do: All you have to do if you want to view the new Facebook timeline system right now today is go to the Facebook developer site, create an app (you don’t really have to create an app, just give one a name), and then activate it from there. For more detailed instructions on how to activate it, click here.
My First Impressions of the New Platform
Watching Mark Zuckerberg talk about Timeline and how they have been working on it all year was really interesting. No matter how awkward he can be in social setting sometimes, he still manages to captivate a crowd when he gets in front of the stage in front of a large screen that is displaying his historical product. This is because that everybody in the room knows that whatever he is saying is eventually going to be huge – as well as extremely important and relevant to their lives. Whenever Mark Zuckerberg is talking about Facebook, and what is to come with it, all eyes are on him (even if nobody is laughing at his jokes).
The new Timeline seems a bit creepy at first. It summarizes every minute you have ever spent on Facebook, and it gives a way much more in depth look at who you are as a person.
That is because Timeline analyzes the pattern of your lives, and allows for people to get to know you better by looking at your patterns, rather than an endless wall of comments and posts that get lost in limbo once they reach the bottom of the page.
It will also allow you to Identify yourself by not what you say, but what you do. It is going to have a lot heavier app integration. In the conference, Zuckerberg highlights the fact that you can go running with your phone in your pocket, and it will track your distance and show it on a map in your timeline. It is very cool stuff.
The map option is also very cool. You can tell a story, or add a location to photo, or anything you do really and your map pretty much becomes a story about your life that is organized geographically. It is a very cool option and a very unique way for people to learn about who you are as a person.
Timeline also make privacy on Facebook a lot easier. Everything you post on your Facebook has the ability to be hidden from people that you potentially not want viewing that part of your life. It allows you to keep private the things you want to keep private.
Conclusion:
In short, Timeline gives people a better view of who you are by displaying the information that matters the most to you and to the social world. It will do this by using heavy app integration. We’ll just have to wait and see, like we did with the News Feed, if the Facebook nation falls in love with it. In my eyes, it is only going to make the world want to share more on Facebook.
This article was written by Philip Russell. Philip helps to run a credit card comparison web site called www.CreditDonkey.com. You can apply for credit cards at this web site, and it also has a lot of infomration about how to use credit responsibly – especially for students. In his spare time he likes to write articles about SEO and Internet marketing.
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