Facebook Timeline: How to try it

Facebook has recently introduced the new profile page with not only a new style but a whole new set of possibilities you may be willing to do since long or you may not be. Whatever but it’s the new Facebook Timeline.

Oh after seeing the above timeline layout of facebook profile, you really will want to try it out. Ok go ahead and follow the steps below to do it right now. Of course you can revert back to your old profile page if you feel uncomfortable with new Facebook Timeline.

Wear the newer cloths: The Facebook Timeline

1. Make sure your are logged into your facebook account.
2. Open the link Facebook Developers App page. (If you have not already added the facebook’s developer app you will need to allow the app and proceed as follows.)
3. Click “+Create New App” button on top right corner.
4. Provide any name in “App Display Name” field and a namespace in “App Namespace”. (namespace is required for the timeline and should be user friendly name e.g. “tech-prolonged-timeline”.) Agree to the terms & conditions and click “Continue”.
5. You now should be in your app’s main settings page. You really don’t have to do any thing on this step. but just click “Open Graph” on the left pane.
6. Now you just need to give a sentenced form with two blank fields. e.g. People can “read” a “book”. And click “Get Started”.
7. Next page will be a set of fields you won’t want to mess with them, just click the “Save Changes and Next” and then once again “Save and Finish”.

That’s it. You have made it. Just go to your profile page or home page. You should see a big blue panel with the the title “Introducing Timeline – a New Kind of Profile”. The action you need to perform is to click “Get It Now” on that blue panel. After clicking you will be redirected to completely new profile page for which you have performed all above steps. You of course will want to publish your new profile page aka “facebook timeline”. Click “Publish Now” on top of your profile.

Revert back to your old Profile Layout

You only need to delete the above created app to revert back to your old profile layout. To do that.

1. Open the link Facebook Developers App page.
2. On the left pane click the app name you created above.
3. On top right corner, click “Edit App”.
4. Now on the left pane you will see a bunch of list items. There will be a link “Delete App” at the bottom of left pane. Click “Delete App”.
5. Confirm the deletion and go back to your facebook profile page. You will be with your old profile layout.