timeline - tips and tricks

Ten Tricks and Tips for your Facebook Timeline.

1. Facebook has downgraded the famous "poke" in the new Timeline design.
If you still want to "poke" your Facebook buddies, you have to head directly
to their profiles.
Under a friend's cover photo, next to the "Message" box, there's a cog menu.
Click this and you'll see the option to poke. As always, use wisely.

2. You can view how others see your Timeline.
Click the cog icon under your cover photo, select `View as'
You can now enter a friend's name or click on the
`public' link to see how stranger's view your Timeline.

3. If you have hidden items from your timeline but still want to
review all of your Facebook content.
Look at your private Activity Log. Click on the
`View Activity' box under your cover photo.
Select a type of content from the `All' menu.
Now you can browse all your past Facebook activities, organized by date.

4. When you subscribe to someone's public updates.
Facebook defaults to `Most updates'
To change this.
Go to the person's profile and click the `Subscribed' menu.
Or
Click your `Subscriptions' `favorites' box (under your cover photo).
This gives you a complete view of the people you've subscribed to.

5. Albums you've created will show up in your Timeline. However,
you can change the large image.
Click the pencil edit icon to select a different image from the album
that will appear in the big window.

6. If a certain ad is bothering you.
Hover over the advert and click the `X' that appears at the top right.
This gives you the option to hide it or hide all ads from that advertiser.
If you choose to hide the ad, Facebook gives you the further option to
tailor what kind of ads appear on your account.

7. You can make Timeline look even less cluttered by hiding the sidebar.
To do this, click on the arrow icon at the very bottom right of your screen.

8. The "Friends" and `Photos' boxes are fixed, but you can play around
with the others.
To edit the boxes, click on the small arrow icon on their right.
All boxes that can be moved or removed will have a pencil icon
appear as you hover.
Hitting on the pencil brings up edit options to remove or swap boxes.
To add a Facebook app, click on the plus sign on an empty box.

9. Hide what you don't want showing.
When you see a post you'd like to hide, just hit the pencil icon
at the top of the post and select `Hide from Timeline'
This doesn't delete the content from your account, but it will
keep it safe from prying eyes.

10. Half-hidden posts. Posts that are marked on your Timeline,
but not displayed. These are noted by a blue dot on the central line.
You can view these posts by clicking on the individual blue dots.
A quicker method is to click on the three blue dots underneath each year.
This gives you the option to view all stories within that year.