Facebook Timeline: A Whole New Profile Unveiled At F8

Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Facebook's f8 developer's conference to unveil a totally new kind of profile.

It's called the Timeline, and it's a richer way to view the content you post to Facebook. The feature's tagline: "all your stories, all your apps, a new way to express who you are."

Content is organized by year and compiled into an continuous stream. To jump to a year, just select the year you want from a list of years, which expands to display months, along the right-hand side of your Timeline.

"We're more than what we did recently," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the keynote event. Timeline, he went on to say, helps the users show "the story of your life on a single page."

Zuckerberg also gave developers a preview of what the Timeline will look like on a mobile device.

Take a look at the new Timeline (below).

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[Billzen]

03:53 AM on 09/24/2011

Why all the hate. I believe these changes make for a better profile in the long term. Every one always bitches every time there is even the tiniest facebook change.

[Kidronlewis]

01:25 PM on 09/23/2011

Just another reason to migrate over to Google+...

[snide7242ca]

09:22 PM on 09/23/2011

Kidronlewis

I went on Facebook yesterday and couldn't find anything. I don't have time for this! I'm going to check out Google+ too.

[Kait8807]

10:30 AM on 09/23/2011

Privacy settings are not as private with this timeline, unless he fixes it. This timeline idea is honestly a big mistake. I don't like it at all.

[Larry Waters]

11:39 AM on 09/23/2011

Then don't use it.

[Kait8807]

11:26 AM on 09/25/2011

I am not at the moment, but there may have no choice if it becomes the new profile for everyone?

[ladyacenj]

01:36 AM on 09/23/2011

This will be a great tool to catch criminals easier and quicker. Everything is all in one place. Friends, family, employment, photos, check-in's, timeline.......

[drekrab180]

11:39 PM on 09/22/2011

I'm going to unfriend most of my friends.

[drekrab180]

11:37 PM on 09/22/2011

Yawn .... I'm sure Z has a much more interesting life than I. This is more information than I need or want.

[buzzcowboy]

09:11 PM on 09/22/2011

Now that I work for a company that scans old photos, slides and negatives to digital (GoPhoto.com) I can't help but smile in Facebook's direction. Yes, people do indeed enjoy sharing their memories online - but the bulk of those memories are sitting in a closet collecting dust.

http://blog.gophoto.com/2011/09/22/facebook-timeline/

Here's hoping that the FB timeline helps encourage folks to unearth that dusty box of photos and slides from Grandma and get them digitized. (You can of course do it yourself, but it sort of takes forever.)

I went through the hack and have it displaying on my profile, and I have to say: I think it looks pretty sweet.

[John michael Adams]

07:38 PM on 09/22/2011

it looks like Windows Phone OS lol

[Stefan Sirucek]

07:27 PM on 09/22/2011

When is this happening?

[mhcw]

07:06 PM on 09/22/2011

Epic fail.

[jungefrau]

07:03 PM on 09/22/2011

Not a FB user myself, but if Zuckerberg is giving away puppies like the one above, I can be converted to his little cult.

[MSaxe]

07:00 PM on 09/22/2011

Looks like MySpace with a Facebook skin.

[IsyFleur]

06:49 PM on 09/22/2011

Gosh, I'm just starting to be able to navigate FB without the help of my teen aged kids, and now this! It's an affront to all the electronically-challenged old farts like me!

[StupidityIsGrace]

07:40 PM on 09/22/2011

Don't worry: I'm a teenager, and even I can hardly work the blasted thing!

[azyuwish]

06:44 PM on 09/22/2011

HATE IT MARK.

[Anthony Spartan]

06:24 PM on 09/22/2011

can we please go back to the 2006 layout!