Facebook’s changes never end. Whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing, it depends on how you view it. Some people resist changes and some embrace them. Being a technology blogger, I love updates and changes. It keeps things refreshing and most of the time, updates are for the better – new features, problems fixed, speeds improved, etc. Sure you have to re-learn some stuffs and perhaps new changes may mean more problems. However, in the software world, when problems arise, you can always fix and update the problems in the future.
The latest upcoming change in Facebook targets your Profile page. If you want to, you can update yours now BUT you cannot go back to your old profile. So keep this in mind before you decide to update yours.
I updated mine (even though I’ve read many hate comments on Facebook’s blog post) just to see what it looks like and let you know of the changes. I personally like the changes that the team has made.
Before:
After:
So what’s new with the new Facebook profile?
Profile Summary and latest photos of you
The most obvious one is the top of your Profile page. It displays your profile summary and your latest tagged photos:
You can hide a photo if you don’t want it to be seen on your Profile page by pressing the “x” button over a displayed photo.
Updating status is now located under the Share area. Previously, Facebook separated the area to share status and media/links. I guess they are trying to make it neat and organized with this small change.
Your friends’ profile
Note that once you upgrade to the new profile update, you will see the same layout if you go to a friend’s profile:
There is also a section on the right, “You and your friend” where you can see all the things you have in common such as photos or events that you have shared togeether.
Featured Friends
You can also featured some of your friends (by grouping them into a list). How to feature your Facebook friends? You simply go to the Friends section and then press the Create a List button on the top. Select some friends that fall into the list and you’re done.
I didn’t find this useful as I wouldn’t want to publicly separate my best friends with my “just-to-have-fun” friends. It wouldn’t be very nice, would it?
Auto scroll photos and videos
Before the update, normally you have to press the next (or one of the page’s number) when you are viewing a friend’s photos on his/her profile. This time, you just need to scroll the page with your mouse and more photos are loaded automatically. It’s much faster and better! No more “next” link or pages to click on.
Stalking a friend can never be easier (oops)
For more information about the updates, make sure you read the official Facebook’s blog post and also the Facebook’s new profile help center. The team says the update will be rolled out slowly to everyone by early next year. If you like what you’ve seen so far on this post, feel free to update yours earlier though.
I personally like the changes so far but some people think otherwise. I guess if you casually use your Facebook like I do, you’ll love the changes. However, if you spend hours each day on Facebook, you might hate the changes because you now have to find where things are.
To update to the new Facebook profile, go to Facebook new profile info page. IMPORTANT: YOU CANNOT REVERT BACK TO THE FACEBOOK OLD PROFILE ONCE YOU’VE UPDATED.
So, have you updated your Facebook profile? Do you like it? Hate it?
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for walking me through this. I’m going for the Facebook Profile update because it reminds me of switching to the New Twitter – only you can’t switch back. LOL!
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Ahaha yeah, it’s a bit hard for some people after they find out that the new change is not to their liking.. well in this case, Facebook team is going to roll the changes out to everyone anyway
Where does it pull the “Owner at Craving Tech” text from? Is it because you’re the admin of your Craving Tech page or do you have listed “owner” somewhere in your profile bio?
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Oh… I just added it as one of my “occupation”
Didn’t add new feature,just redesign the page be more similar to Facebook home page.
Well the auto scrolling is in a way a new feature, although you can’t really call it a ground breaking “feature”, I guess
I liked the new changes, but I’m not ready yet to upgrade my page.
I will test it on my friends pages and then update my profile
I really hate it. I just find it ugly, bluky and really wish I could go back to the old one.
Wished I had of known you couldnt change it back once you changed it..Like to see status bar and who wants to look
at photos of themselves at the top of there own page..and cant bling my page with page rage anymore doesnt work..its crap change it back… hate it mite delete facebook altogether because of this……why change something that dont need changing..Good on ya this has really pissed me off..Cant get used to it………
I guess after a few weeks, you’ll probably get used to it
Too bad you didn’t know that you can’t change it back though.. well early in 2011, Facebook is going to force the update to everyone anyway, so you will not really miss anything
I’m all for the new changes on face book – BUT PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING ERRORS: -
1) ON HIDING YOUR UNWANTED PROFILE PICTURES by clicking on the cross – EVENTUALLY THEY WILL REAPPEAR – THEY CANNOT BE TOTALLY HIDDEN. Facebook need to address this ISSUE and give us facebook users the option to choose what Pictures and text appears at the top of THEIR PROFILE page.
HOPE THIS HELPS ALL FB’S?
2) Next Problem: – too much information is not a good thing; especially if you do not want it (it has been proven to be dangerous)! WHEN COMPLETING YOUR EMPLOYENT/OR CURRENT EMPLOYMENT -Facebook will automatically create a link with your company/workplace/where you currently working etc, on it. To find out on your New UPDATED PROFILE If this is the case – click onto your workplace company name – it will take you to your workplace – you created this link without any knowledge of doing so!
I liek some of the features especially the photos. What I don’t really like is the news feed small fonts for statuses. If it were links, albums etc it would fine, but for the status, they’re too small.
What I like is the list of friends like tab view but I didn’t like the interface of the user homepage.. I can’t appreciate the status message of each person..
Mike,
To me, at first i hate new facebook LOL, but slowly i start to like it.
I guess we all need time to get used to it.
Happy holidays,
Kimi.
Yeah, it’s always the case with changes.. people hate changes even though they are for the better (although not all the time)
Hi I have a few questions related to the new profile.
How can I see the list of open friend invites that I have sent? Like the way we used to have before, with ‘Friend request sent’ written in front of their names in the friend list.
How can I restrict myself from viewing someone’s profile without blocking them? Or if i block someone is it possible to remove his/her name from the block list?
Please help me with these questions if anyone is aware of these.
Thanks and Regards,
Guncha
I liked the NEW FB Profile at first & have ‘hacked’ the profile pic layout using http://www.picscatter.com already
Not sure if it’s to do with the new profile or not but since changing, I now cannot open my ‘Mobile Uploads’ album! I get an error msg “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.”
I have reported this to FB as a bug but don’t expect a quick response
I’m a FB addict, so I update my status daily & upload new pics/places etc regularly. Once my pics are uploaded to my Mobile Uploads album, I usually ‘move’ them to another album straight away. Sometimes I wait a few days, then go into the Mobile Uploads album & ‘move’ multiple pictures at once …. which I currently cannot do! Bummer!
I went with the new profile page…and all of my albums are gone????? for good or can I get them back???
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