# Facebook Brings New Profiles

- Link: https://exclusiveaccess.net/facebook-brings-new-profiles/
- Published: 2010-12-06T11:02:15-05:00
- Author: EAN

**On 60 Minutes, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed a new design for profile
pages on the site. We’ve detailed the major changes here.**

The Social Network may have been the best thing to happen to Mark Zuckerberg and
Facebook. Though the film portrayed the co-founder negatively, and inaccurately,
it’s made him a person of interest. People want to know more about Facebook and
the company has done a remarkable job of raising its stature in recent months, rolling
out new features with teases and high profile events, much like Apple. Facebook 
Deals and new Social Inbox attracted mainstream attention, and on 60 Minutes this
weekend, Zuckerberg revealed the social network’s new redesigned profile pages,
the first major change to profiles since tabs were introduced in May 2008.

![](http://hustlebunny.com/content/2010/12/facebook-1.jpg "facebook-1")

Facebook is becoming a lot more visual. Tabs are now gone, as you can see in this
picture, courtesy of Forbes. In the new design–which will slowly roll out to all
FB users in the next couple months–tabs now appear as buttons in the left column
that sit below an enlarged profile picture. To the right of the profile picture 
are more photos. The new design strongly emphasizes tagged and uploaded photos, 
displaying your last five pictures in a row across the profile page. Sports is getting
its own Interests section as well. It, along with other categories like Music, Television,
and Movies are also displayed with pictures associated with them.

Above the photos is what Facebook is calling “conversation starters,” or a series
of brief factoids about your life. For example, under Mark Zuckerberg’s name it
says: ““* Has worked at Facebook since 2004 * Lives in Palo Alto, California*
Studied Computer Science at Harvard University * From Dobbs Ferry, New York * Born
on May 14, 1984.” None of this information is new, so there are no new privacy
concerns, but the redesign is puts your life front and center.

Other new features include:

A featured friends section is in the left column, which lets you choose groups of
friends you’d like to be prominently displayed.

A new experiences enhancement that lets you add projects you worked on at your job,
classes you took in school, and list who participated in those events with you.

Photo pages have a cleaner look and design that lets you view all your photos one
one page, without the need to click “next” to view the next bundle of photographs.

Pages for websites will get an upgrade too. Check out this Ellen TV page, showing
a prominent Bing map.

![](http://hustlebunny.com/content/2010/12/facebook-2.jpg "facebook-2")

The old profile design can be seen above. While many Facebook users will fight the
changes, as they always do, the new profile appears to be a step forward in communication
and design for Facebook. On 60 Minutes, Zuckerberg was his usual stiff, unblinking
self, but showed a public confidence that he hasn’t had before.  He answered 
questions about poaching Google staff, privacy, The Social Network, the Winklevoss
twins, and the hacking culture at Facebook, among other things.