The Future of Facebook: Out with profile pages, in with the Timeline
By Taylor Hatmaker, Tecca | Today in Tech
Sweeping changes
Facebook's new direction has a bit of a dual personality. At the dawning of the News Feed, Facebook loosed our status updates into the wild. While we once visited each other's profile pages to trade messages and check in on friends (or acquaintances of interest, for better or worse), the News Feed has since eclipsed our personal pages when it comes to connecting on the world's biggest social network. With today's announcement of the Timeline and the Ticker, Facebook will seek to weave together these two modes into a richer, more immersive social experience than ever.
The Ticker will handle the Twitter-like real-time updates, which Zuckerberg referred to as our "lightweight" social activity
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I'm not liking facebook at all lately and their future palns of making our pages a timeline is not for me..what do you think>
So far, what I have seen confused me. I'll have to check it out again in a few days.
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