Dislike. This is the feedback received by Facebook when they change the look of the profile page a few weeks ago. Millions of Facebook users were not happy with the change, especially without notice, that majority of Facebook users posted complains about this change in their Facebook page.
What Facebook did was change the layout of the profile page. Let us say, a friend just posted a tweet about a discount voucher for shoebuy and ebags that she discovered from the net.
This post about the coupon code will not appear at the top of the page, as the News Feed shows the most popular tweet first which they call the “Top Storie” while recent posts from friends and contacts follows the “Top Stories” and are listed in chronological order. Facebook even added a ticker at the right side of the page, which is like the microblogging platform twitter, as it shows live feed of all ongoing activities.
This change did not receive “Like,” in Facebook terms, from its millions of users. And just after this update, Facebook launched another feature called Facebook’s Timeline.
So what is Timeline? Will it receive the same ire as the new updates that Facebook released recently. Let us find out:
Since Facebook arrange post in a chronological order, old posts are buried into the deeper pages that the only way to read about posts from the past is by clicking “Older Posts” over and over again and for someone who posts updates regularly, this can mean tens or even hundreds of click just to go back to older posts.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a single place where you can view your best memories? That is the purpose of Facebook’s new feature, the Timeline.
Your Timeline includes pictures, videos, posts, and all activities as it happened in time and it is all up to you what you wan to include in your timeline. You can choose to add events that were not included by simply going to that event and adding it to your timeline. You can even make pictures bigger than the rest in the timeline to highlight it by adding it to your Favorites. Or you can hide an event all together.
Timeline also works with apps (although I am not sure if this is a good thing or not) and it adds to your timeline activities that you do like the music that you listened to, the books that you’ve tried in the past year and more.
Timeline also works on mobile device so those with iPhone, iPad and other android phone can enjoy this feature.
This feature of Facebook hasn’t fully been rolled out yet so it is for us to find out if Timeline can recall the “Dislikes” that users have given to the recent updates that Facebook had launched. Let us wait and see.