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"Facebook has unveiled its new Timeline profile pages, and they are a radical departure from the Facebook you know.\nOn the stage of the f8 developer conference in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg explained, \"We\u2019re more than what we did recently,\u201D  thus he and his team set out to create a Facebook experience where you could explore not just what your friends did today, but what your friends did last week, last month and last year.\nThe new Timeline is the answer to the problem of filling in the context of someone's entire life. It is a moving mosaic of the photos, videos, places and status updates that make up not just your Facebook profile, but in a way, your personality.  Facebook wants to chronicle your life, and now you can see the scrapbook.\nWe've had a chance to try out the new Facebook profiles and play with Timeline.  The following are our first impressions of the new product, as well as screenshots of Facebook Timeline in action.\nPhotos: Facebook Timeline\n\n\n\nFacebook Timeline: In-Depth\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe New Facebook Profile: Timeline\nTimeline is a radical departure from previous versions of the Facebook user profile. The most prominent feature is the addition of a cover photo at the top of the page. Users can change this to whatever they'd like it to be.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1986\nFacebook knows that in 1986 my sister was born.  Facebook is aware of these life events and includes them in your timeline.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeing Born\nYou can even add a picture and context to your birth, which starts the Timeline.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTimeline Interface\nThe Timeline is a two-column interface with top photos, status updates, friends and more.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMap\nFacebook has added a feature that lets you see where you have visited. This is powered by Facebook Places.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhotos in the Timeline\nHere's how photos are displayed in the Timeline.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriends in the New Timeline\nHere's how friends are displayed in the Timeline.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChanging Settings\nSome of the new Timeline's customization features.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2008\nMore of the new Timeline.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLife Events\nWhile joining Facebook is one event, you can also add life events such as getting married or starting a job to your profile through the Publisher Bar.  You can also announce that you broke a bone, moved to a new city, etc.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTimeline: First Impressions\n\nDesign: The Timeline interface is beautiful. The addition of the Cover Photo makes the Facebook interface more beautiful, and the timeline is easy on the eyes. While it will take some time to get used to the two-column layout, it actually is easier to navigate than the old Facebook.  Facebook thought hard about the design of this change.\nInterface: The interface works smoothly, though with bugs (it's a developer preview). One problem is that you can't easily get back to specific points in time on your timeline if you leave it to, say, look at a Facebook Page.  There are some confusion \nPlaces/Map: The new Map feature really gives users a reason to start checking in with Facebook. You just feel like finding ways to add more to your map. It's a nice way to see where your friends travel.\nPhotos: The new photos interface is simple and clean, though it isn't sexy.  It gets the job done, but leaves us wanting more.\nTimeline: The timeline itself is a wonderful feature, but it can be confusing trying to find content. It takes time to load older years as well, when you'd prefer for it to load instantly. But as a discovery tool, it is really powerful, and as you populate it with more content, it will become more useful.\nPublisher Bar: The updates to the Publisher Bar make it far more versatile. It allow you to not just add a status update, but add a job, get engaged, announce that you broke a bone and more. It uses Facebook's new social actions and makes it so you can tell your friends about everything you do.\nProblem of Getting Married Twice: We did run into one big problem with Facebook's new Timeline \u2014 the \"getting married twice\" problem. As a test, I got married to @hermioneway on Facebook through the new Publisher Bar. It signaled that we were \"married\" in our feeds, but it didn't actually update our profiles as \"married.\"  To do that, we had to go into our Facebook profile settings to change it.  Users shouldn't have to do this twice, and most users won't.  It's a problem that will confuse users terribly. \n\nConclusion: The new Timeline interface is beautiful and a major time sink. However, this is clearly not a finished product. The social network must do more to clean up actions on the Timeline and avoid the \"getting married twice\" problem.\nOverall though, Facebook has made profiles more personal. Users are going to be spending hours in their friends' Timelines.\nWant to enable your own timeline now? Here's how.\nMore F8 Coverage:\n\nFacebook Changes Again: Everything You Need To Know \nPrepare Yourselves: Facebook To Be Profoundly Changed \nFacebook Now Has 800 Million Users \nFacebook Timeline: Here\u2019s What It Looks Like [VIDEO] \nFacebook Open Graph Seeks to Deliver Real-Time Serendipity\nYahoo Hooks Up With Facebook for Socially Curated News\nFacebook Adds TV &amp; Movies to the Stream \nWhat Do You Think of the Facebook Changes? [OPEN THREAD] \nFacebook Reveals Major Updates at F8 [LIVE BLOG]\nFacebook Timeline Redefines User Profiles\nSpotify Comes to Facebook [PICS]\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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