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    Facebook redesigns profiles, adds 'timeline'

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is dramatically redesigning its users' profile pages to create what CEO Mark Zuckerberg says is a "new way to express who you are."

    Zuckerberg introduced the Facebook "timeline" Thursday in San Francisco at the company's f8 conference for some 2,000 entrepreneurs, developers and journalists. The event is also being broadcast to more than 100,000 online viewers.

    The timeline is reminiscent of an online scrapbook, with the most important photos and text that users have shared on Facebook over the years. It's Facebook's attempt at growing from an online hangout to a homestead, where people express their real selves and merge their online and offline lives. The timeline can go back to include years before Facebook even existed, so users can add photos and events from, say 1995 when they got married or 1970 when they were born.

    Zuckerberg took the stage after a humorous skit, in which actor Andy Samberg impersonated him. The real Mark Zuckerberg looked considerably more playful and at ease than he has in past events, suggesting he is growing into his role as the public face of Facebook.

    But he quickly got down to business as he introduced the timeline as "the story of your life — all your stories, all your apps and a new way to express who you are."

    Expanding on its ubiquitous "like" buttons, Zuckerberg said Facebook will now let users connect to things even if they don't want to "like" them.

    "We are making it so you can connect to anything you want. Now you don't have to like a book, you can just read a book," he said. "You don't have to like a movie; you can just watch a movie."

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    Ortutay reported from New York.

     
     
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    1,524 comments

    • j  •  8 mths ago
      HAte the new facebook
    • dc  •  8 mths ago
      give us our old facebook back! even the edit friends is messed up!!
    • klicks  •  8 mths ago
      My Grandpa used to say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Well, now it's broke, so do you think you can fix it? There was nothing wrong before, and now, it's a confusing pain in the a##. Sometimes, trying to simplify and improve things makes things more difficult, and this is one of those times. Please put things back the way they were.
      • 5469 8 mths ago
        I could not have said it better! Amen!
    • wolfmangd57  •  8 mths ago
      I read the comments and every one but a feww are right it sucks!! They should never fix what is not broken! And see people are right bring the out way back!!
    • Maurice  •  8 mths ago
      I don't like or appreciate your changes, where are the photos that people posted?
    • DarkestSilverStar  •  8 mths ago
      HATE HATE HATE HATE THE NEW CHANGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A LIST FOR THIS A LIST FOR THAT I AM MISSING FRIENDS AND ALL KINDSA CRAP...... I am a avid facebook user and i am super #$%$ at the changes !!!! MARK ZUKERBURG U SUCK MAN U SUCK!!!!
      • Desert Dogs 8 mths ago
        Whaaaaaaaah! So your willing to start making a monthly payment so you can have input on changes, right?
      • Kevin 8 mths ago
        Google+ check it out!
    • ken  •  8 mths ago
      I hate the "new" Facebook...I am saying EXACTLY what everyone else is saying...if it ain't BROKEN...don't fix it!!!!! It has WAY too much too it now and my poor mom, almost 70, who learned how to FB and enjoy it...is totally lost now too.....THIS SUCKS. LISTEN TO US ZUCKERBURG....not your ever growing ego....THIS SUCKS!
      • Gthegod 8 mths ago
        what? speak english
      • Earthling 8 mths ago
        I understood him perfectly, if you didn't...YOU must not really speak English!
    • rhoms  •  8 mths ago
      so many changes and so many haters....I must say,I hate the changes on FB too..better bring back the old one
    • sassy  •  8 mths ago
      FB might be free, but we should be able to say if like the new and not so improved FB or not. I don't like it at all,please change back.
    • zangazoo  •  8 mths ago
      Facebook, you're not near as smart as you think you are. Your algorithms for deciding what I want to see, who I want to talk to or what I think is important are 99.999% of the time the exact polar opposite of what I want. Everything you do to try to simplify things only complicates things more. Every attempt you make to improve things inevitably ends up in a HUGE step backwards. Take for example the new way Facebook displays pictures when clicked on that now appear initially as a compressed blurry mess reminiscent of the internet circa 1990. Something as simple as a Friend Request is now just a headache of options. The chat, instead of just showing everybody that's online now is broken up into segments that YOU GUESS I want to talk to, more often than not displaying many that I rarely want to chat with and many that aren't even online. Do I have the option to just display everyone that IS online? Nope, because as history has taught us Facebook isn't about viewing or doing things that I want, it's about Facebook coming up with some ludicrous idea of how things "should" be and than ramming it down it's users throats. I echo the sentiments of others that have cited that it is this kind of mentality that killed MySpace, a reminder that Facebook should never consider themselves "too big to fail." You're not!
      • K 8 mths ago
        You are so right.
      • JIF 8 mths ago
        ok, if you really feel that way about it...then close down your page and go someplace else and take the 39 people that agreed with you too. move on.
      • Stupidis Asstupiddoes 8 mths ago
        50 people now Ahszhole
    • Barret  •  8 mths ago
      I, for one, have never clicked on an ad I saw on Facebook, much less purchased anything. I guess some people do, but their advertisers waste their money on me. In fact, I recommend installing the web browser ad on called AdBlock to block all ads throughout the internet. Have any of you actually clicked on their stupid ads and purchased anything? I'm really curious...
      • Pam 8 mths ago
        Not me!!! I find the ads VERY annoying!!!!!
      • JesusJ 8 mths ago
        All the ads do is take up space and annoy me. Adblock all the way. I also use it to get rid of people suggestions, birthdays, and invites. Basically, the whole right column.
      • AmericanGirl 8 mths ago
        Nope. They get on my nerves and slow down my games.
    • Mike  •  8 mths ago
      Very sad day for Facebook! They have just removed every ounce of privacy for every user
    • Peacekeeper  •  8 mths ago
      For all of you that are whinning, why don't you just show him the power you have and QUIT Facebook. Soon as I can download all my pictures off it, I am. Just Sayin'!!
    • ca  •  8 mths ago
      this new way sucks!!! change it back PLEASSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEE
    • Lynn  •  8 mths ago
      "Merging your offline and online lives?" Why on earth would people want FB to have so much power over them? Are they that dependent on external validation??
    • Cheryl  •  8 mths ago
      I REALLY dislike the new layout. Rumor has it that it's only supposed to be 'temporary', so I'll give it to the end of the month. If it doesn't improve, then I'm deleting my account.
    • Lexxa34  •  8 mths ago
      The changes are horrible!!!! Please change it back!!!
    • John  •  8 mths ago
      Not broke. Don't try to fix it.
    • Mike  •  8 mths ago
      I absolutely hate the new facebook.
    • Anonymous  •  8 mths ago
      Wish Mark would pay attention to the people who made Facebook what it is...the users...WE HATE THE NEW CHANGE!!
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