Thursday, September 22, 2011

Get the New Facebook Profile

Facebook announced the new timeline which completely revamps your profile. Currently, it's open to developers. Mashable has a relatively simple guide to get the update even if you don't know how to navigate Facebook's complicated developer section.

I highly suggest checking it out. Some of their Open Graph ideas such as sharing Spotify and Hulu activity seem really cool. (Although, obviously, this is optional.) But for me, the timeline takes the cake for most interesting improvement. Suddenly, Facebook isn't just the latest news in your social circle. It's a convenient and (not quite) complete social history.

3 comments:

Daniel Mochon said...

You have to be careful though with the new app integration. Many of them will share everything you do automatically, so every song you listen to on Spotify will be automatically shared with your friends (unless you turn this 'feature' off).

cdismer said...

Isn't that the point of the new app integration? Especially with Spotify, the information is more useful together than separately. I have a few friends that have benefitted quite a bit from the automatic sharing already.

Courtney Borresen said...

I was actually reading something about this. As shown in the article below, this new feature can be potentially embarrassing. Here is the link: http://mashable.com/2011/09/28/new-facebook-feature/comment-page-2/