subject: 5 Things You Need To Know About Your Facebook Timeline [print this page] 5 Things You Need to Know About Your Facebook Timeline
The development of Facebooks Timeline has been applauded and criticize by many people. Although a lot of people aesthetically like it, we have to face the fact that we still need to learn a lot from this new feature. To help you go through with this we present you 5 things that you need to know in order to maximize your own Facebook timeline to its full potential. We will reveal the advantages and disadvantages for you as a user so that you can avoid the pitfalls and enjoy the benefits.
#1 You can view your entire content Facebooks algorithm can help you choose which stories can you showcase on your Timeline. It will allow you to hide or feature certain activity that you want to get publicize. Posts that are marked on your timeline but were not publicized are determined by a blue dot on the central line. So you can view them just by clicking on these dots.
# 2 You can customize your favorite boxes under your cover photo, the friends and photo boxes are fixed but you can play with the remaining boxes. If you wish to edit them just click on the small arrow icon on their right. You will notice then that all boxes can either be moved or removed by a pencil edit icon as you hover.
#3 You can hide the sidebar make your timeline less cluttered by hiding the sidebar, in order to do this you have to click the arrow icon at the very bottom right of your screen. This will collapse your sidebar.
#4 Get rid of an advertisement If a certain advertisement bothers you, you can choose to hide it. Hover over the advertisement and click the X that appears at the top right. #5 You can easily change your albums primary photo The albums that you have created will show in your timeline and just by clicking the setting icon you can choose to change your primary photo and the likes.
For more information about how to enable Facebook timeline see the article on How to Upgrade to Facebook Timeline?.
