Facebook is about ready to launch a replacement to your “profile” with “Timeline”. Timeline is a radical new look to your profile. A large photo is featured at the top, known as a “Cover” to your Timeline. Your profile picture is smaller and displayed on the bottom left of your Cover. Your Friends, Photos, Map (check-ins), and Likes are displayed below your Cover.
Timeline essentially a scrapbook of your life containing photos you’ve posted, status updates, places you’ve checked in, when you joined Facebook, all of the way back to your birth. The items displayed in this scrapbook-like style are your “Stories” and can be starred, or featured, on your Timeline and will be expanded to a widescreen view.
All of your Stories displayed on your Timeline can be controlled for privacy concerns. Editing the information displayed is done through a new style interface, which I found to be surprisingly easy to manage.
Facebook will be officially launching Timeline on September 29, 2011.
For a closer look at Facebook’s Timeline click on the image below. I’ve blurred out my friends’ Stories (just to be safe).
