Facebook the Socialite

I was recently using Facebook more often than usual when I found out my cousin got engage through my news-feed. When I realized that I heard about such big news through a social media site it first made me infuriated with my cousin, but then I realized that times have changed and are going to continue change. My cousin used the most efficient  method to inform her friends in the quickest manner. Everyone has a Facebook, or most people I should say and it is becoming the new socialite. Fewer and fewer people are going to their friends and magazines for gossip, rather they are logging onto a social media website and reading about the latest global warming trends and daily horoscopes. I truly do appreciate Facebook and all it has done for the method of information transfer. It also brought me and my best friend from 4th grade back together, for three years I lived in Tokyo, Japan. My parents were in the military and we were stationed over there, during that time I became very good friends with Ashley Anderson. When my parents were told that we were moving again I cried and cried because I didn't know if I was ever going to see my best friend again. I moved to New York and she moved to California after our stint in Japan. I lost all contact with her until facebook came out, I typed her name into the search engine at the top right corner and the rest is history. In fact I just booked a flight to San Diego to visit her over the winter break, this re-kindled friendship is made possible because of this social media website.

Coming Soon....The Facebook Timeline

The Facebook profile has been evolving ever since Facebook was created. The initial profile page was very basic and included your name, where you go to school and a picture of yourself. The profile then changed so that you can communicate to your network on Facebook by adding photos and personal updates. Once your page gets overstocked, certain updates get left off the page and the only way to find them again is to continually click “Older Posts” and search for what you are looking for. This can be both very tedious and time consuming. It is now possible to place all of your favorite Facebook moments and place them into a single page. This can be done with a Facebook Timeline.

Timeline does not vanish your old memories like the old profile, everything stays even when you add new stuff. It is more visually appealing because it is a wider profile. The top photo is your cover and you can pick and choose which photos you put in there. With this addition to Facebook, you are in charge of the image making that you develop for yourself based on your Facebook profile. You are in complete control with what people can see and of the image you create of yourself. As you scroll down the page, your photos, events, and posts are all in order as they occurred. If there is something left out, you can easily add it to the correct spot on the timeline. You can also add social apps to you timeline. If you add a song or a video to your timeline, I can listen or watch the same thing and we can then discuss it. It adds a whole new way to get in touch and communicate with your network. Also based on the apps to choose to add, other can understand more about your real self.

The timeline is coming out in a few weeks and will greatly increase your experience on Facebook. It will be a great way for people to find out who you really are, and ways for you to learn about other people in your network. With the timeline, you can find more about a person and find similarities. You will be more connected with your network then ever before.

Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPEPfJHfKU for a short video introducing Timeline and learn more information about it.