Over the next several weeks Facebook will be reborn and start it's total transformation into a new social media.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled the company’s much anticipated overhaul of profile pages, transforming the user profile into a virtual scrapbook. A place to show people who you are, what you do and where you've been. Facebook automatically put your information in chronological order.
A key feature in the new Timeline profile is the ability to define different types of "life events." The status update field now has 5 different icons: Work and Education, Family and Relationships, Living, Health and Wellness, Milestones and Experiences.
The new profile also includes a map feature that can show where you’ve been, thanks to Facebook Places. It maps out your travel. You can even mark your place of birth. But perhaps the most striking feature is the cover photo, which displays a giant image at the top of the new profile page.
In the past once your status update left your profile, you more than likely never saw it again. With this new layout you can access everything you've done in the past. You can share more of who you are and find out more about your friends. On the down side, if you'd prefer to keep your life a little more private this will be more difficult. For some it may become a privacy nightmare, digging up every post from your past.
Here are what your options are for adjusting your settings, based on the level of privacy you want to achieve.
1. How to make all posts friends-only.
Use one of the blanket privacy settings introduced not long ago: "Limit the Audience for past Posts" on the bottom of your privacy setting page. If you decide to use this option, content on your timeline that you've shared with more than your friends—such as public posts—will automatically change to Friends only. With this setting, though, people who are tagged and their friends will still be able to see the post.
2. Limit the posts by others on your timeline.
Limit specific people or lists of people from viewing what others have posted to your wall. To do this, go to your Privacy Settings page, then select "Edit Settings" next to "How You Connect." Select the drop-down menu next to the last item—"Who can see posts by others on your timeline?" and choose "Custom."
In the box under "Hide this from," type the names of the people or the lists that you want to exclude from viewing posts on your wall by others, for example those on your Limited Profile list. Then click Save Changes.
3. Edit every post manually.
While this is a tedious process, it does appear it's the only way to ensure you're hiding exactly what you want from the people you want.
And there's always the "View Profile As" feature, which shows you what others see when they look at your profile. Go to the new timeline, click the gear icon on the right, below your cover photo, then click "View As..." from the drop-down menu. To preview how your profile appears to the public, click the link in the text, or type a person's name into the field and click enter.
Over the next few months there will be new additions to Facebook, like being able to share the music you're listening to at the moment or a movie in real time. It will be interesting to see how Facebook transitions.
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