Monday, 19 March 2012

Time line and Features

Last year Facebook have introduced timeline, a new kind of profile that lets you highlight the photos, posts and life events that help you tell your story. Over the next few weeks, everyone will get timeline. When you get timeline, you'll have 7 days to preview what's there now. This gives you a chance to add or hide whatever you want before anyone else sees it. 


This is how a timeline look like once u get it. It is easy now to get a time line for your profile. Many of us may know how to get time line. But still many of the things are there which we still need to understand. 
Now here we are going to make it more visible. Timeline will let you set two pics on your profile. One is your pic which you can set at left corner and another is a your cover photo. Cover photo can be anything. It can be your own big picture or you can find many cover photo, once you search Google for it. Beside Giving your profile a good look, Timeline also keep notice on the events that you have share with your friends and arrange according to the time period. Its like showing you an evolution of yours. You can Notice Update Info Tab just below your cover image. Clicking on Update info you will get redirected to Your profile page where you can update/change/edit your profile information. In order to update/change the Information on your profile, you have to click on edit tab visible just before the field that you want to edit. Once the Information edited, all you need to do is click on done editing. You can Edit contact Info, Education and work Info, pages.

How your profile look to your friends and people. 

In the Above Snap you can Notice the grid circle. which Actually Denotes setting in many of the mobile device. On clicking this small gear like icon, you can see "view as " and "add badge to your site". On clicking  
View as you can see a rectangular area where it is already written "Enter a friends name " Where you can put your friends name and see how your profile looks to him/her. The Another option is of "Badge" . Badge is a small icon that you can add to your Profile picture. This Badge can be anything. Look at the Pic Below.
In the Above Picture "beadonor.ca" is the Badge added to the profile picture. There are so many other badges like this. We can continue with the Badge in our another post. 
You can see others profile information by clicking on about. 

Short Summery Timeline By Facebook 

Start with your cover

Your cover appears above your profile picture, and it's the first thing people see when they visit your timeline.
Choose a unique photo from your life to feature on your cover. Note: Just like profile pictures, your cover photos are public.

See everything in one place


This is where you'll find your info, photos, likes, apps and other stuff — all in one central place.

View all your activity

Your activity log will list all your posts and activity since you joined Facebook. Go here to review things you're tagged in, change who sees individual stories and more.

Rediscover your top stories

This is your timeline. It's your collection of your most memorable photos, events and experiences.
Scroll back to the beginning or jump to a specific time by clicking the dates along the right side of your timeline.

Highlight what's important

Hover over a story and click the star ( star icon ) to expand it to widescreen.Or click the pencil ( pencil icon ) to hide or delete the post.
Some stories on your timeline appear as dots ( dots icon ). Just hover over the dot to view the story.

Add anything that's missing

Click anywhere on your timeline to add updates, photos and stories about the places you visit. Or click Life Event to add experiences from the different parts of your life.

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