Facebook's Timeline is a major overhaul to the Facebook profile. For me, the Cover Picture is the most welcome new "feature", since it allows you to make your profile "yours", almost as much as you used to be able to do on MySpace (custom overlays notwithstanding).

Beyond this, the Timeline allows you to go back in time and see your previous activity without clicking "Older Posts" countless times. You can fill in old data if you want, even from dates before joining Facebook --or should I say, especially from dates before joining Facebook. After all, Facebook wants your entire life, not just since you joined. It's already data-mined the crap out of the last few years, and now it wants more.

On that note, is Facebook getting too ahead of itself by listing "Born" as the start of the timeline? Do they really want you to go back and add pictures of that painting you made in 5th grade?

Before I get too off topic, the main issue I have with the Timeline is its auto-loading functionality, which automatically loads content as you scroll down. This makes it so lots of extra irrelevant data is loaded if you're trying to narrow in on a specific time range. If you use the sidebar you'll generally be ok, since the buttons that are inline with the timeline are virtually useless; they auto-load the moment they scroll into view. I suppose I'll get used to it.

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