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Surprising Features of the New Facebook Timeline In a similar fashion to the extras that you
might find on your favorite DVD is what you will find with Facebook’s newest updates.
However, unlike finding inside stories and anecdotal embellishments about a movie, you’ll
find a way to significantly customize your Facebook profile and your entire Facebook
experience while still maintaining a modicum of privacy. This is quite a significant thing
when you consider that a great number of users of Facebook have still not converted over
to Facebook Timeline and have yet to customize it for either professional mandates or personal
desires.
It’s likely that some people have already delved deeply into the new timeline format,
but many people haven’t. If you’re not careful, however, you may miss out on some
wonderful features in making your Facebook account and your social media experience uniquely
your own. Facebook E-mail
If you really want to experience a new and refreshing Facebook Timeline experience you
need to think about the Facebook e-mail function. If you go to the contact information section
of your Facebook profile page, you’ll find that you have an e-mail address. This e-mail
address is your public user name with the @facebook.com at the end.
Now, most people are concerned that this inbox of your Facebook e-mail is chock-full of messages
that you haven’t read. However, it’s important to understand that if you have any messages
that are addressed to your Facebook e-mail, a little red number will appear by the e-mail
account reminding you of unread messages. If there is no reminder, you have no messages.
In addition, you can also send messages with your Facebook e-mail, even when you’re not
using Facebook. Most e-mail systems will be able to send as well as receive messages sent
from your Facebook e-mail. This is another feature of Facebook Timeline that most people
are unaware of.
Life Events
If you haven’t made the changeover to Facebook Timeline, this may be the best reason to do
so at your soonest possible convenience. With Timeline, Facebook allows you to document
as much or as little of your life as you want to. You can write statuses, post various photos
or create a life event.
If you’re unfamiliar with what a life event is with Facebook, these events can be virtually
anything that is happened in your life, from the school you went to, to the relationship
you have, even to your first tattoo.
It’s important to understand that most people won’t want to share every bit of information
on every important event in their life. However, if you’re one of those people that want
to, Facebook Timeline gives you the option to do just that.
App Settings
Although the app setting feature may not the most important aspects of Facebook Timeline,
this can offer a bit more of a nostalgic flair than anything else. All you need to do is
move under the account settings tab and that is where you can find all of the apps you
have used on your profile.
If you want, you can clean out the apps that you’re no longer using as well as taking
a stroll down the Facebook memory lane as it were. You can look at all the apps from
the past such as bumper stickers or apps for pieces of flair as a remembrance of how you
once used this social media website.