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Home » Social Networking Sites » Facebook » Will the Latest Facebook® Changes Make You More Sociable or Distant?

Will the Latest Facebook® Changes Make You More Sociable or Distant?

You must have noticed a whole collection of new features sprawling over your Facebook profile page, starting from Thursday night (September 22, 2011). This was quite expected after the Facebook F8 conference held recently in San Francisco. These newly added features are distinguished changes Facebook has witnessed ever since it came into being. Let us take a short roundup of all the Facebook changes that waited to be explored by you.

A Timeline        

The Timeline has been laid to create a scrapbook of your profile by streamlining information including all your news feeds, your pictures, the apps you frequent, etc. The Timeline will also come handy in keeping a track of places you have been to, since your birth. Hence, this feature will pick bits of your Facebook journey and create a history of all your Facebook inputs.

Top Stories

You wish you could only see important updates on the Wall and simply avoid unimportant updates (what he or she is playing, change of home town, cities, etc.). Well, your prayers have now been answered by Mr. Zuckerberg and the new Facebook layout will enable you to prioritize on important updates and keep unimportant updates off your sight. Top stories are now identified with a blue tag and Facebook will alert you on ‘more new stories’, instead of giving details of those – if you kept Facebook open in your browser.

Ticker & Chat Box

With this combined chat (whether you are online or offline) and Ticker box, expanded at the right side, you will be notified of the real-time updates whether you stick to News Feed or navigate to any other page. The ticker will be seen attached to the top of the chat box. You can simply adjust the proportions of ticker and chat display by hovering over the gray bar found between the ticker and the chat.

There are some other notable new features that you can adjust according to your usage and how much sociable you may want to be. There is an album layout with a stack of three photos (a small snippet of album photos), a drop-down tab to hide the story or to mark it as a ‘Top story’, a post notification bar that automatically reveals more new stories unlike the older version, an option to open out (only if you want though!) by showing a number of new posts (like those you see on Twitter ’30 new Tweets’). So, see what you like on Facebook and ban what you do not like – your Facebook profile has now been aligned to your style.

By Bidisha


Bidisha wanted to buy a new cell phone and her thorough research for gadgets revealed her passion for technology. Gradually, she found her drawn to everything related to technology and her work which involves extensive research and writing on new gadgets, apps, and smarter use of technology. Careful, her mission is to manipulate technology-naïve women to juice up their ordinary lives with use of technology.

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