Just In Timeline

Facebook is rolling out its Timeline this week and I have to say: It is awesome.

For the uninitiated, the Facebook Timeline is an overhaul of your profile. Instead of showing a reverse-chronological listing of Status Updates, photos, wall posts, etc., the Timeline places everything from your profile in a tile-based timeline that visually places items in chronological relation to one another. In simpler terms: you entire online life is now on display and navigable with a few simply clicks.

The best aspect of Timeline for me is the ability to instantly view any year, month, or day from my past. Most major updates, events, photos, and relationships are already populated on my Timeline. In what will surely become an addiction in 2012, my Timeline can be altered at any point - I can go all the way back to 1984 and play catch-up by filling in major milestones with updates, notes, stories, and photos. My Facebook profile can literally be my own personal museum. In an interesting nod to how integrated to the Internet I really am, I found myself verifying events on my Timeline with those that I wrote about on my blog since 2005. Everything matches perfectly.

And that is what makes Timeline so great: it is my own personal, visual, interactive history that I can share with the world. I hope to spend many months filling in details of my past and I look forward to see how my Timeline grows over the years.

For the first time since I came on board, Facebook has made a change that I wholeheartedly support and most certainly do enjoy.

B3 out.