Here’s 4 reasons I think you’ll love the new Facebook:
1. Facebook is bringing out the timeline
No, don’t stress. It’s not some odd history lesson about to bore you to tears. Have you ever stalked a friend on Facebook and tried to piece together what job they’re doing, when they hooked up with their partner and what they’ve done over the past 5 years? No? That’s only me then. Facebook is bringing out the timeline so that you can piece together your whole life on Facebook. Before the timeline everything you’ve ever done before {on Facebook} just disappears down your page never to be seen again. Now you can click back over the years and see what you were doing, what you said, when you signed up to Facebook {June 8th 2007 for me} and even what you were eating at any given time. You can even go BF {before Facebook} and add photos into your timeline of when you were born.
2. Facebook is bringing out the verbs
You’ve spent that last year clicking ‘like’ on stuff, but now you’ll be able to add a few verbs to the list. You’ll be able to have read, watched, listened, hiked and more through Facebook. I think this is a good move because sometimes ‘liking’ things doesn’t seem appropriate.
3. Facebook is getting a little more social
You may have already noticed a real-time ticker on your Facebook home page that shows what your friends and pages are doing at the present moment. Soon, you’ll be able to interact a little more with those ticker updates.
I love learning new music favourites through friends, and even movie recommendations. Imagine seeing that your friend is cooking something with chocolate and being inspired to do the same. Or perhaps you can see that you friend ran a course down the beach and tracked it with something like Nike+. You can run the same track yourself another day. {I suggest making your track private or friends only – so that you don’t have someone running around after you!}
4. Facebook is letting you give your page a ‘feel’
This reminds me ever-so-slightly of MySpace but I’m sure it will grow on me. When people visit other people’s Facebook pages they get to know a little more about them in the first few seconds. Usually this is through their job description, the school they went to or who they’re married to. Now you’ll be able to get a feel for someone by their coverphoto {I’ve put clouds in mine}. You’ll still have your profile picture that will be seen when you post around Facebook, but the coverphoto will give your page your own ‘feel’. I secretly think Mark Zuckerberg is going a bit soft on us, but ssshhh.
As I said before these changes won’t be implemented until a few more weeks, and apparently that’s only half of the changes that are going to happen. We’ll have to wait and see what else they bring out.
If you want to jump the gun and get the new Facebook now, check out this post.
Are you on Facebook? Are you looking forward to the changes?
When I saw this on the news this morning, my first reaction was “More changes? Ugh. Looks like Myspace. Hate it.” …But now, I think it might be growing on me. Perhaps. That, and I'm in a much better mood now than I was this morning, ha!
I was addicted to Facebook. Not so much these days, although I still appreciate it. And I think the new stuff looks cool.
And YOU look all shiny and new here too Chantelle? xx
You are my geekalicious guru and wonderful for sharing your tips.
x
Yes, but will Facebook have a “dislike” button?
Oh my Chantelle – you are first person I have heard being positive about the FB changes..I have not heard one good thing up until this point. I have asked friends requestingt hat you hover over their name and untick variious buttons because FB has decided to tell the whole world about comments you make on one friends page, that maybe you don't want the whole world to see.
everyone is saying that it is just getting far to complicated, and I myself ( a real techno geek) am considering making a permanent move to google+ and ditching FB completely….
FB wasn't broken so why on earth are they trying to fix it – its appeal was it's simplicity and that is rapidly going down the drain as far as I and most of my friends are concerned.
Sorry to be negative about it – I hate being negative about anything, but this is not a good thing.
Lou 🙂
As your nerdy friend I thank you. There are some things I cannot get my head round and I fear this is one of them. Thanks for explaining it xxx
Embrace the change…why do people get so worried about change?? Thanks for explaining the Fb changes so easily!!
thankyou so much for sharing! I have timelined up my page and after inital shock at the feed changes the other day (I couldn't out most recent posts in order and it annoyed me!) I do love the new look and interactiveness.
very over people being negative about it all on facebook!
Tatum xx
Thanks for the tips, Chantelle. I'm not going to opt to get the new designs early, instead I'll just wait. But now at least I know what's going on. 🙂
By the way, “If it ain't broke don't fix it” is such an ignorant viewpoint. Change can be such a positive thing. If we all lived by that saying, nothing would ever evolve.
I am enjoying the changes the only change I don't like is every move I make is up for all to see. I deliberately delete this action from my personal profile as I was sick of family and friends making comments to other people which then got back to me about their assumption I use the internet too much. I didn't want to feed their false assumption. Now every move is there again. I don't appreciate that. As far as I can tell there is nothing that can be done to prevent this apart from asking your friends to hide you from their profiles and surely the people who must like observing how much time I use on the internet will not take this off.
That is what bothers me. The privacy aspect.
@Megan: Having worked online for a little while now, I know that things do need to evolve. I also know that people seem to really dislike change. Thankfully it's usually an initial concern and then people seem to adjust and get used to the changes.
Change frustrates me too at times – but I agree with you. It's a good thing. xx
Ya, i saw yesterday, Facebook has great looking and i love the changes!
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I'm confused. Did you get paid for this post? You didn't mention it, so I assume not, but it seems like advertising. Confusing.
@Carolyn: No, no payment. I just wanted to share that I'd done a little research and was looking forward to the changes. Thanks for asking though. x
So far to me some of the upcoming features sound really creepy. When you use apps, they will share all the information about you with everyone. Facebook keeps pushing for there to be less and less privacy.
I'm so with you – am in love with Timeline. Thanks for sharing and being a fellow tech head! Heehee.
Nicole x
p.s. Love the new look site – beautiful design, colours and very high impact.
Thanks for keeping me in the loop. I'm not sure I like the recent changes to facebook with the top news stories/recent news stories. I liked having everything there then I'd skim what I wasn't interested in.
The changes you mention sound pretty cool though. There are lots of rumours that they'll start charging too. Just a scam, or is there truth to the rumour?
And I thought I was a geek! I love it Chantelle, and am so glad you've shared some previews for it. You obviously embrace change like I do.
Us embracers need to stick together to convert the others!
xx