When do profiles switch to timeline

If you're like most of us, you — and your friends — have logged hundreds or thousands of status updates, photos, videos, events, and check-ins over the years, and Timeline throws it all onto a single page. It's both exciting and terrifying. Facebook's built a browsable, visual history of your life without much effort on your part — aside from providing the content — and it's got much more of an immediate impact than any previous version of Facebook.

Our friends, jobs, break-ups, late nights, hard times, great meals, and everything else we've documented will soon be laid out in reverse chronological order on what will be the world's biggest digital scrapbook — million users strong — that we've been posting to and tweaking all along. It might feed late-night narcissistic binges where you spend hours highlighting your favorite photos and hiding questionable status updates from in order to present the best "you," or, as Zuckberg said at f8 , "It's a new way to express who you are.

Where in the past photos buried in galleries may have been shared with your friends, your data has never been this accessible. Let's dive in. After clicking 'Get it Now,' you'll be asked to add a new Cover image. We've found uncluttered, full-screen shots work best, and you can choose from your pictures on the site or upload a photo from your hard drive. The Timeline redesign shuffles around your friends, photos, and other activity, placing it all directly beneath your Cover Photo.

Clicking through each section reveals your photos, friends, likes, and other activity chronologically. At the top left of your Timeline, you can add more events, status updates, and photos. A click on the blue line running down the middle of the page invites you to share more photos, "Life events," status updates, and locations, especially among the the pre-Facebook days. Yes, Life Events, which give you the option of adding everything from home improvements and new roommates to first kisses and new hobbies.

Navigating Timeline is pretty simple, if a bit click heavy: scroll down to move back in time, and persistent calendar at the top right slides down the page with you so you can hone in specific years and months. Additionally, once you scroll down far enough where your Cover image can't be seen, a new navigation bar appears with dropdowns to jump to different years and more options for quickly posting status updates.

Take note of the gear in the set of menu buttons on the right side of the window; the 'View as' option will be your most essential tool for getting your profile into shape. It lets you view your profile from the perspective of family members, friends, coworkers, or anyone else on Facebook, letting you fine tune what other users can see. Tweaking the visual display of your profile is surprisingly intuitive. Tap the star button on a photo or video to "feature" it on the Timeline, causing it to spread to the full width of the window.

To minimize, click the star button again, and completely pull it from the Timeline by clicking "edit," and "Hide from Timeline. Over the next few months, anyone still refusing to voluntarily switch to the Timeline profile redesign will be automatically migrated, Facebook tells me. Facebook revealed to me it plans to complete the Timeline rollout by this fall as part of its photo revamp this morning. Before the end of the year, those still on the old design will see a prompt upon their next login telling them about the switch to Timeline.

And then compares these profile views in relation to all of your friends or in the case of your friends, what other friend profiles and photos they view more often. Keep in mind, because everyone has different friends, a different number of friends and different types of relationships, everyone will have a slightly different reason as to why certain people show up in their friends box.

Facebook is always tweaking its algorithm that determines these factors, so the reason why certain friends show up may always be changing slightly. These factors include: Interactions on Facebook. Recently and over time. Recent interactions play a large role, especially if someone has recently viewed your profile page.

This is how to do it:. Then, try to change the profile picture. Wait for a few moments, and open Facebook again. Once Facebook users change a profile picture and want to hide it from the timeline, this is what they must do:. If a profile picture is too large, users might need to adjust it to fit the profile picture circle. Zoom it out as much as possible, and that should do the trick.