As it became known, Facebook should be in the near future various innovations are incorporated, among other things, the own profile will be completely changed and transformed into a chronicle. In the picture below you can see what the timeline looks like on Draven's profile. If you would like to use the new function and don't want to wait until Facebook officially changes its profile, you can activate the chronicle in developer mode with the following instructions:
- First, the developer mode must be activated in Facebook. To do this, type in “developer” in the Facebook search field. The first result of the same name is correct, it is an application with just under a million users. Alternatively, click on this facebook link. You then select the developer application and allow it to access your own profile.
- Now you create a new app (top right). After you have freely chosen your name and namespace (special characters are to be avoided with the latter) you agree to the “Platform Privacy Policy” with a tick and click on Next.
- The name of the app should now be at the top of the page. There are five items on the left: Settings, Open Graph, Roles, Credits and Insights. You choose the second one, i.e. Open Graph.
- The first point in the Open Graph menu on the left is “Getting started”, click on it.
- In the middle of the window two fields appear which have to be filled in. You have to define an action and an object. For example, we have selected “read” as the action and “Website” as the object.
- The following settings (three pages) can be read through and changed, but this is not necessary. After all settings have been confirmed, you are done, the timeline is ready.
- You finally go back to the Facebook start page, where you will already be greeted by an info field on the chronicle. If you click on “Use now” you land directly in the timeline. Alternatively, you can get to the new view by clicking the new field with your own name in the top right corner. By the way, you can only see your own timeline or that of other developers.
Caution: If you change computers and log into Facebook from another PC, you will deactivate the timeline on all devices. You can get the timeline settings back by entering the following URL: www.facebook.com/USERNAME?sk=timeline.
I don't have to have that, but I'm still very excited to see how Facebook will implement all of its plans in the future. I see a copyright hit storm approaching the company and I don't want to miss it for anything in the world.