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"Facebook users have a love-hate relationship with Facebook Timeline, which encourages users to share their life story in photos and milestones. So where does French President Nicolas Sarkozy fall on the amour-haine spectrum? J'adore, it seems, as Sarkozy has enabled Timeline on his profile.\nSarkozy's Timeline page has has just under 5,000 followers. It lists his occupation as \"President of France\" and his cover photo shows the president grinning widely with others at a public event. In French, the photo reads \"I've had from an early age the pride of belonging to a great, ancient and beautiful nation: France.\"\nIn Timeline, users can mark life \"milestones.\" For most, milestones are a baby's birth or college graduation. But Sarkozy is using milestones to prominently show achievements he's made in office, including reconciliation with Rwanda or helping earthquake-ravaged Haiti. He also marks celebration of French holidays or national achievements, such as France's selection as host of the UEFA Euro soccer tournament.\nSarkozy's team capitalized on Timeline's photo-friendly design. Scrolling through the president's Timeline reveals pictures of Sarkozy at a nuclear power plant, a classroom, a diplomatic meeting and other public events. All of Sarkozy's milestones have images attached, allowing visitors an eye-pleasing romp through his nearly five-year term.\n\nSEE ALSO: Facebook Timeline Roll Out: Everything You Need to Know\nFacebook is glad to have Sarkozy using Timeline.\n\"Anyone can create a presence on Facebook and we are always pleased to see prominent figures including politicians use our platform to connect with people,\" says Andrew Noyes, manager of Facebook's public policy communications.\nSarkozy joins an increasing list of public figures using Timeline, including media mogul Arianna Huffington and Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. In case you were wondering, President Obama doesn't use Timeline.\nWhat do you think of President Sarkozy's Facebook Timeline? Sound off in the comments below.\nBONUS: How To Fill In Your Facebook Timeline\n\n\nHow to Fill In Your Facebook Timeline\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. The Timeline Menu Bar\nAs you scroll down your new Timeline, a floating menu bar will appear at the top of your screen. Use it to add new events.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Work and Education\nEvents are divided into categories. The first is \"Work and Education,\" in which you add jobs, studies, volunteer work and military service you completed before joining Facebook. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Family and Relationships\nNext is \"Family and Relationships,\" where you can note engagement and marriage events. Facebook also suggests you add the birth of your child or a pet adoption here. Finally, you may feel inspired to write your reaction in the \"Lost a Loved One\" category.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Living\n\"Living\" events include relocation, buying a home and even getting a new roommate. For anyone who likes showing off their shiny wheels, Facebook also included a new vehicle category.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Health and Wellness\nFacebook may have overstepped the privacy concerns of some users with its \"Health and Wellness\" section. It provides the opportunity to tell friends about broken bones, surgery or overcoming an illness.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Milestones and Experiences \nFinally, \"Milestones and Experiences\" is the catch-all category, a broad yet flexible ode to all of life's turning points. Currently you have the option to add a hobby, a new language, a license, an achievement or award, a trip and a \"piercing or tattoo.\" Hmmm, we'll all be looking forward to the pics, that's for sure. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. \"Other Life Event\"\nFacebook also allows user to add an \"Other Life Event\" to each category for circumstances that don't fit into its pre-set milestones.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Adding an Event \nWhen you add an event, a pop-up window appears for you to complete simple fields relevant to said event. You can add more info via the \"Story\" box, and attach a suitable photo, either from pics you've already uploaded to Facebook or from your computer.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. Privacy Options\nNote that events you add to your Timeline default to \"public\" view. If you want to keep your events private to your friends, you need to click the drop-down menu on the bottom of the window to set your preferred privacy level. As well as selecting just your friends, you can also include relevant groups or set up a custom option.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. The Event in Your Timeline\nOnce you've added and saved your event, it will show up large in your Timeline display, taking up a two-column space. We presume that because you've taken the time to add it, Facebook deems the event important to you.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11. Minimizing Events in Your Timeline\nIf this isn't the case, you can shrink the event down to one-column size. To minimize, click the star at the top-right of the event box.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12. Hiding or Deleting Events \nYou can also edit, hide or delete events from the same menu.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13. Your Recent Activity \nBe aware that when you add an event to your Timeline, Facebook notifies your friends via the \"Recent Activity\" module. If you were hoping to fill in your Timeline with little attention, you can remove the alert by hovering over it and hitting the \"X.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n15. Adding Events Directly in the Timeline\r\n\nAlternatively you can add events directly in the Timeline. This is a convenient feature, as you may find that looking back through your Timeline's existing content jogs your memory. To add an event in the Timeline just hover over the central blue line. Click the plus symbol that appears to add whatever kind of event suits your fancy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n16. And You?\n\nWe suspect the average Facebook user may add a few milestone events to fill in the blanks of their online past. On the other hand, maybe you're not willing to take the time to detail your past so thoroughly.\nWhat do you think? Will you fill in your Timeline? Will your mom fill in hers? Will you click through to see other's Timeline events as they add them? Share your thoughts in the comments below.\nImage courtesy of Shawn Allen\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of the Government of France"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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