Facebook’s Timeline

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook’s Timeline is the “new way to express who you are.”

Let’s face it our generation wants to share every important event (and a lot of insignificant ones as well) that has happened to us in our lives.  Well now with Facebook’s Timeline we can do that all on one page.  Facebook’s Timeline organizes everything you’ve done on Facebook, from posting photos to changing your relationship status to checking in at event, and allows users to fill out a “Way Back” section to add details that are omitted or pre-date the social network.  Basically, it’s your own personal story in pictures, your online history, your digital scrapbook.

Facebook’s Timeline | Its Purpose

According to a Yahoo News article on Facebook’s Timeline:

Zuckerberg introduced the Facebook “timeline” Thursday in San Francisco at the company’s f8 conference for some 2,000 entrepreneurs, developers and journalists. The event is also being broadcast to more than 100,000 online viewers.

The timeline is reminiscent of an online scrapbook, with the most important photos and text that users have shared on Facebook over the years. It’s Facebook’s attempt at growing from an online hangout to a homestead, where people express their real selves and merge their online and offline lives. The timeline can go back to include years before Facebook even existed, so users can add photos and events from, say 1995 when they got married or 1970 when they were born.

Here’s a video detailing Facebook’s Timeline:

Facebook’s Timeline | Zuckerburg’s Two Cents

Facebook expects to roll out Timeline in a few weeks, but you can see what it looks like in the video above.

Although Zuckerburg was still a little stiff, he definitely shared some laughs with impersonator and SNL performer Andy Samburg joined him on stage for a skit before he jumped right into Facebook’s Timeline pitch.

But he quickly got down to business as he introduced Facebook’s Timeline as “the story of your life — all your stories, all your apps and a new way to express who you are.”

Expanding on its ubiquitous “like” buttons, Zuckerberg said Facebook will now let users connect to things even if they don’t want to “like” them.

“We are making it so you can connect to anything you want. Now you don’t have to like a book, you can just read a book,” he said. “You don’t have to like a movie; you can just watch a movie.”

We’ll see about this, because the “Like” button helps your SEO and we’ve already built pages that have a fan display and a non-fan display.  Not to mention Google+’s +1 button will still be present and building great SEO for the business pages its included on.  Facebook’s Timeline and an overview of the f8 Conference is right here at BlackBoxSocialMedia.