Facebook Unveils New ‘Timeline’ Feature

Say goodbye to your Facebook ‘Wall’ and say hello to your Facebook ‘Timeline’.

Yesterday Facebook opened up its new 'Timeline' profiles, which will offer the most drastic change to the site we’ve ever seen.

'Timeline’ was introduced nearly three months ago, but users were not able to access it until yesterday. You can choose to use your 'Timeline' now and you will have seven days to review, arrange, hide, or delete things you want or don’t want to be seen on it. You can also choose to just publish it right now.

Want to get one, or just see what it’s all about? Go to the Facebook Timeline info page.

What's the big deal?

From CNN:

Timeline will arrange a user's posts, photos and important milestones (weddings, births of children, etc.) chronologically in two columns of information, with a blue line marked by dates running vertically down the middle. On the right, visitors can easily skip to certain months or years to see what was happening at that time in a person's life, and below that is 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.
People can choose to "feature" major life events, such as engagements or injuries (which is now an optional type of status update), or hide more embarrassing ones. A new Activity Log page makes it easier to see everything and to find certain posts.

Surly, there will be plenty of backlash from some Facebook users. It seem someone gets angry at ANY change they make. But, after looking at a few published Timelines I think I am going to like it.

It makes it a lot easier to find information and see things that I might have missed. Let's face it, I don't want to be constantly glued to my news feed.

We'll see how the rest of the world reacts, but I’ll give the new Facebook look a tentative ‘like’ for now.