The way you look at your life on social networking site Facebook is about to get real sleek, the highly anticipated Timeline feature is now available to everyone. From CNN:

Timeline will arrange a user’s posts, photos and important milestones (weddings, births of children, etc.) chronologically in two columns of information, with a blue line marked by dates running vertically down the middle. On the right, visitors can easily skip to certain months or years to see what was happening at that time in a person’s life, and below that is advertisements. In addition to a standard profile picture, users can now set a cover photo, a large shot that appears at the top of each Timeline profile.

Facebook has said the idea behind Timeline is to chronicle someone’s life and its major events over many years instead of the social network’s current profile pages, which tend to emphasize the here and now.

For those anxious to see what kind of past info or photos Facebook may find, the clock starts ticking as soon as Timeline is turned on. Once that happens, a user has seven days to review the new layout and edit things before it goes public and can be viewed by friends. Each user can choose during that time to unveil their page before the seven days are up; regardless, Facebook will publish the page automatically after a week.

Now people don’t even have to know you to think they know you.  Great?

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