Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced a major redesign of the Facebook profile. To be rolling out in the coming weeks, the new profile called Timeline aims to paint a more accurate picture of who you are.

“Timeline is the story of your life,” said Mark Zuckerberg. “All your stories, all your apps, express who you are.”

Timeline will essentially take all your profile’s content—photos, comments, activities, events, apps, etc.—and reweave them into a timeline format that goes as far back as the day you were born. The Timeline highlights the most important content, with what seems to have a strong emphasis on photos, wherein your more recent activities are in detail and then becomes more summarized as you go further down the timeline. Think of it as the scrapbook of your life, but all in one single Facebook page.

As I watched Zuckerberg explain the new features onstage at the f8 developer conference, it made me realize my reliance on the social network to learn about new and existing friends—consequently, also the importance of the accuracy of the profile.

The look of my Facebook Timeline

When I meet someone and I generally get along with that person, it has become my instinct to look for that person on Facebook and add them as a friend. If I want to learn about that person I just met or catch up on what my other friends are doing lately, I turn to their Facebook profiles—that is if I don’t readily have the opportunity to catch up in person. Just as the name suggests, Facebook is essentially an online book resource of who you are. But, does it really reflect who you are? Your accomplishments, interests and what you do? I believe to some extent it does express your basic info and what you have been up to recently, but it does not depict a true picture of who you are—the important events, relationships, and experiences in your life. And Timeline aims to change that with the use of new social apps.

One of the first apps I installed was Spotify which shows on my Timeline the music I'm listening to as well as what my friends are listening to.

The new Open Graph Apps seamlessly integrate within your Timeline. Divided in different categories such as games, media, and lifestyle, apps are a new way of showing your interests and activities on your profile in a much more robust fashion than the simple “Like” button. One interesting facet about these apps is how easy they are to add and use boasting about the ridding of useless prompts after the initial add.

I was able to get the Timeline profile yesterday and have just barely scratched the surface on how rich Timeline and the apps truly are. Overall, it may take some getting used to, but I like this change. I was starting to feel like the Facebook interface was getting cluttered with small add ons here and there and this fresh, streamlined look is a lot more pleasing to the eye, at least to mine.

You can view your Facebook Places check-ins plotted on a map

What do you think about Timeline? Love it? Hate it? I would love to hear your thoughts. If your profile hasn’t converted yet, watch the short introduction video here.