Many people over the world started finding messages from Facebook . com on Thursday encouraging them to start up scrapbooking their life.
The service's all new Timeline profiles, which Facebook introduced over three months previously at its annual conference, is already available to all of the site's 800 million users who finalise to turn on it. Shortly after that, Facebook will turn it on for anyone with an notify on the top menu of profiles, the company explained in a blog post.
Timeline will arrange a user's content, pictures and necessary milestones (weddings, births of children, etc.) chronologically in 2 columns of information, with a blue line labeled by days running vertically straight down the center. On the right, visitors could easily skip to certain months or years to check out what was happening at that time in a person's everyday life, and below that's promotional advertisements.
In addition to a standard profile picture, users can now set a cover photo, a large shot that appears at the top of each Timeline profile.
Facebook has explained the idea about Timeline is to always explain someone's lifestyle and its major events more than years instead of the social network's existing profile pages, which often emphasize the here and now.
For those anxious to check out what type of past info or pictures Facebook will find, the time starts ticking when Timeline is switched on. Once that happens, a user has seven days to check out the newer style and change things well before it's going public and can be visited by friends. Each user can pick during that time to introduce their page before the seven days are up; in spite of, Facebook will share the page automatically after 7 days.
People can choose to "highlight" major life events, like engagements or injuries or cover up much more embarrassing ones. A latest Activity Log page makes it much easier to find everything and to discover certain posts.
Facebook app developers began tests Timeline profiles in September, and the company has never made significant changes to it since then. This update has followed Facebook's "slow rollout" concept for product launches.
"We're over what we did just lately," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the announcement previously this year. "We like to design a place that feels like your home."
Undoubtedly, when Facebook makes changes, some users complain over the change of their pages. Usually, many users may not be fully conscious of Facebook's latest change until it comes on on the site.
"Facebook is going to absolutely change the way its profile pages look within the site's major redesign at this point, and only a percentage of the website's 800 million users seem to have the merest clue," wrote Mashable ceo Pete Cashmore in a September column for CNN.
"So yes, you'll do not like the latest Facebook profile when it starts … " he added. "And then, just like me, you may realize that Facebook has revealed something so outstanding that you did not possibly realize it at first: A important social network. And … you'll wonder why life wasn't always this way, and the way you've got by without it."