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# Introducing The Facebook Timeline: The Story Of Your Life
- URL: https://www.skatter.com/introducing-the-facebook-timeline-the-story-of-your-life/
- Published: 2011-09-23T02:40:13.000Z
- Updated: 2020-05-09T23:20:49.000Z
- Description: Earlier today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center to announce a major revamp to the world’s largest social network at the company’s annual F8 Developer Conference. The big news is an evolved profile page which goes by the name timeline. Faceb
- Author: Sahas Katta
- Tags: News, facebook, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-03-10 07:31

Earlier today, [Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg](http://facebook.com/zuck) took the stage at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center to announce a major revamp to the world’s largest social network at the company’s annual [F8 Developer Conference](http://f8.facebook.com/?ref=skatter.com). The big news is an evolved profile page which goes by the name timeline. Facebook was simply touching the surface when it unveiled a new real-time news feed, a subscribe feature, and an improved friends list over the past week.

Zuckerberg noted the information section of a profile page would generally only consume about the first five minutes of an in-person conversation. Though Facebook quickly grew to add news feeds, most posted items quickly get tucked away under the “older posts” button. [The new timeline](https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150289612087131&ref=skatter.com) feature aims to let users tell a story of their life. A quick timeline found on the sidebar essentially extends from the day your were born to today. Users can filter though someone’s timeline by year and month.

http://youtu.be/hzPEPfJHfKU?hd=1

While posted items enter a new feed with the current date and time, the new timeline lets users inject a story anywhere. A person can head back in time to add a picture of the day they were born, make notations for anniversaries, or just about anything other major life event.

Another notable addition includes a large cover photo, which complements a profile picture, for a personal touch. It appears as though the [new chat system from earlier this year](https://www.skatter.com/facebook-launches-skype-powered-video-calling-and-group-chat/) and the newly introduced real-time news feed will stick around in the sidebar. While sponsored ads currently appear in the sidebar, it is unclear whether Facebook intends to slip sponsored material into a timeline.

I spent sometime messing with the new timeline interface and I have to admit the new layout is gorgeous. Though it looks much unlike past versions of Facebook, it is a next step for evolution and innovation to progress. The notion of a news feed lacks emotion and sounds much like a technical term while a timeline has a more personal touch. As Zuckerberg noted on stage several times, the new Facebook profile page will tell the “story of your life.”

**Links: [Facebook Timeline](https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline)**