Facebook announced the new Timeline feature at last week’s F8 conference.
This was the major announcement among several developments outlined by the world’s largest social networking site.
Facebook’s Timeline will change the way the social network is used, providing users and their friends a more complete story of who they are and what they do. It will be officially launched this week – 30 September.
When Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, demonstrated the Facebook Timeline at F8, the concept initially appeared abstract. Users can have a sneak preview of the Timeline by following the steps outlined here: http://goo.gl/UUGpx
The Timeline will completely change your Facebook experience – it displays photos, comments, posts, Likes and events in a long-scrolling tableau that maps out your ’social life’.
At first it might appear creepy as users can go back in time, scrolling through their life stories like a scrapbook – counting friends that have been made, personal victories, life choices, events attended and more.
Users greatly benefit with the Timeline as everything is automatically grouped and you can go back and add events from the past – adding a new meaning to the social experience online.
It might take some time for users to get familiar with, but we should think of it as a combination of a timeline and scrapbook – a new platform for the digital world.
The question arises as to how the millions of brands, athletes and organisations that utilise Facebook Pages will now script their identity on Zuckerberg’s network.
