Facebook is one of the things that has captured us and changed our browsing habits forever. This social networking site has become a global platform where you can showcase your talents and watch out what is happening the lives your friends and social circle.
Since its inception, Facebook has made a number of changes to its looks and personal profiles. Today we will be seeing and examining them.
1. Facebook Timeline:
This was the much awaited change in the F8 Conference that was held recently. The timeline is based on the principle of personal scrap book thereby giving you more freedom and flexibility on what you want to share with the world. The timeline gives you the facility of moving back in time and see the status, likes and applications that you have subscribed to in the past. There is a space for a large picture that you can use it to describe you. You can hide or feature stories on your timeline.
2. News Tickr:
This is constantly updating features that will appear in a small rectangular space on the upper right area. This news ticker is basically an activity stories that shows activities such as friends commenting on someone’s status or posts or somebody posted or subscribed to some apps.
3. Smart Lists:
This is another fantastic introduction from Zuckerburg and his clan. The main inspiration behind this feature is the circles that were introduced in the Google Plus project. The Smart Lists are capable sharing your posts and status with only a selected group of people. You can do this in past also but at that time you have to individually select or deselect people with whom you want to share your status and posts.
Facebook automatically creates the five lists for you which you can later on modify it. These lists are:
Close Friends: this list will have a list of suggestions of people that might become your close friends.
Acquaintances: People selected in this list will see your post occasionally.
Work: Add people who work with you
School: this is a self-populating list i.e. it will add on those people who have attended the same school as yours.
4. News Feeds:
The news feeds have been changed. There are no longer Top News and Recent Stories links at the top of your profile page. The news feed will now comprise of the status and updates from the friends you have subscribed to and other pages that you have liked. The Top Stories are indicated by a small blue triangle at the upper left corner of the news. Another improvement that has been done is that the news feeds are of larger size than before.
5. Subscription:
This feature allows you to get subscribed to the person that you admire personally. This is an attempt to make your profile more and more public. There is a subscribe button that you can click and then you will be able to receive all the updates and status of that person. If you have a number of follower or subscribers then it is always better to have a fan page instead.
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