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Facebook For Dummies, 7th Edition

by Carolyn Abram, Amy Karasavas
March 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
432 pages
11h 24m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 5

Timeline: The Story of You

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Navigating the Timeline

check Filling out and editing your Timeline information

check Sharing with your friends through your Timeline

One of the fun things about writing Facebook For Dummies has been noting what’s important in my life based on the examples I use to explain certain concepts. When I wrote the first edition, I was just out of college and every example usually related to Ultimate Frisbee, whether it was posting photos (of a Frisbee game) or planning an event (like a Frisbee match). By the second edition, I’d been working a little bit longer and used examples related to some really fun travels I’d taken. The third edition was all about my wedding, the fourth about my time in grad school, the fifth about my new baby, the sixth about my second baby, and for this edition, well, turns out my two toddlers are still taking up a lot of space. As it turns out, your life can change a lot over the course of several years.

That moment of looking backward and seeing how far you’ve come is the idea behind the Facebook Timeline. Like many websites, Facebook wants you to establish a profile with the basic biographical information — where you’re ...

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