Five Tips to Make Your Facebook Timeline Amazing

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Your Complete Guide to Facebook Timeline

Timeline allows you and your friends to easily view your past Facebook activity, including old photos, comments, posts, videos, notes, and group activity.

The layout is arranged in reverse chronological order and also features some pertinent information about you at the top of the page such as your Friends list, photos, a map with geotagging information from your profile, your likes, basic information, and a large photo called your cover photo.

To prepare for the inevitable, be sure to read PCWorld's getting-started guide for Timeline as well as "Facebook Timeline Privacy Tips" if you want to lock down your profile.

Once you're up and running, or if you already have Timeline, here are five tweaks to get the most out of your new profile.

Tag Your Map

Timeline features a new map app in your profile that shows all kinds of location-based information including where you've lived, trips you've taken, where important events or moments in your life happened (if you add them to Facebook), and photos with a tagged location. Most of that information you add from the main Timeline page, but you can also include photo location data right from the map.

To get started and show your friends where you've been on your travels, visit your Timeline profile and click on the map below your cover photo. On the next page, click on Add Photos to Map in the upper right-hand corner. A filmstrip will appear with a selection of your photos.

You can then begin tagging the photos Facebook presents you with, or you can use the slider that appears above the images to scroll through your photos. To add a location, just click on a photo and type the photo's location into the drop-down box.

Go Cover Photo Crazy

You can use Timeline's Cover Photo, the large photo canvas at the top of your new profile layout, with your profile photo in the bottom left corner to create a unique look to your new page. Ivan Marino did a good job on his photo canvas.

Example: Facebook user Ivan Marino

Users have used this new layout to insert themselves into famous historical scenes or create a scene between the two photos. Giuseppe Draicchio wasn't in that movie, was he?

Example: Facebook user Giuseppe Draicchio

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