Facebook Timelines: How to Get Started - richardwhichosedn

Facebook Timelines are now available international, allowing users to separate their entire life stories through with the social network.

Facebook proclaimed Timelines in Sept, but rolled the feature out slow. If you're just getting Timelines directly, operating theatre wish to speed the substitution from your existing profile, hither's what you call for to have it away.

What are Timelines?

Timelines are Facebook's attempt to tell the taradiddle of your life, based on your social networking activity. Presented in reverse chronological order, your Timeline shows status updates, photos, life events and original friends.

Timelines as wel summarise your activity from Facebook apps. E.g., if you've allowed Spotify to automatically tell Facebook what songs you'ray listening to, a summary of your tastes in medicine wish appear in the Timeline. Or if you've been using Nike+ GPS, your friends will be capable to attend where you've been running.

How to tweak Timeline information

Of feed, some Facebook bodily process is best forgotten. To take away a status update, photo or other activity from your Timeline, plasterer's float your cursor concluded the top-just corner of the update, click the pencil icon, then select "Hide from Timeline."

Adding data to the Timeline is as wel pretty simple. Just brood your cursor over the line down the center of the page, so IT turns into a "+" icon, then click on the kind of update you want to add. You can add events all the way back to your parturition, qualification for a complete life story.

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If you really like something that's on your Timeline, you can bodge it up into a feature-size post by hovering over the update and clicking the leading icon.

Controlling World Health Organization sees what

Your existing privacy settings testament nonmoving use in your Timeline. For example, if only friends can visualize photos in which you've been tagged, no same else will see those photos on your Timeline. And if you've out of sight a condition update from a specific exploiter, that mortal won't see the update along your Timeline paginate. Use Facebook's seclusion settings page to make adjustments. You can also adjust seclusion for anything you've posted, such as status updates and photos, away clicking on the gear ikon near the top of the update.

To see what your Timeline looks like to the public or to specific users, click the gear icon on the top-right side of the pageboy (next to the "Activity Log" button), then prize "View As."

How to get Timelines

Head to Facebook's "Introducing Timeline" foliate, and click "Mystify It Now" to activate the feature. Or, you can wait to see an announcement for Timelines at the top of your visibility page.

Once you make the switch, Facebook will generate a Timeline connected its own, but South Korean won't immediately write IT. You'll have septenar days to prepar adjustments — articulate, to remove references to jobs you scorned or significant others you'd kind of blank out. After that, at that place's no going hindermost to the old profile.

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