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08th Jan 2013

No Relationship Status And A Single Timeline Column: Just Some Of The Changes Facebook Are Rolling Out

The changes have started in New Zealand and are quickly making their way up to the northern hemisphere.

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Facebook have begun to roll out their new single-column design for Timelines across the social networking sphere.

The new Timeline organises users’ personal pages better and places greater emphasis on comments to and from friends.

The revamped look has gone live for users in New Zealand already.

All communication from friends and status updates are placed in the much-larger, left-hand column, while the right hand side of the page has been made much smaller as a result.

The new look, as pictured by Owen Williams at The Next Web.

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The Next Web reports that content in the right-side column is now “fixed” to show Friends, Recent Activity and other non-messaging updates on the page. Life events are no longer stretched across the full page.

The redesign also tidies up the Timeline headers like ‘Friends’, ‘Photos’, ‘Maps’ and ‘Likes’. These are now listed as a menu.

Interestingly, the relationship information has been removed from the header.

A comparative picture of the old (left) and new timeline.

We think, with a cleaner and easier-to-navigate look, the positives could outweigh the negatives. You?

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social media