A couple of days back Facebook relaunched the Facebook timeline with several new timeline apps (60 new timeline apps to be exact). These apps automatically posts the activities of the user on different websites directly on the timeline of the user. For instance if the user reads an article on a website that has a timeline app, the details about the article that the user read will be posted on his or her timeline for all of the users friends to view.
Facebook claims that users would be able to update their profiles easily with the help of these new timeline apps. Some of the apps that were released during the relaunch of the Facebook timeline are: Airbnb, Buzzfeed, The Daily, Digg, Fab, Foodily, Foodspotting, Hulu, LivingSocial, MapMyFitness, Pinterest, Rhapsody, RunKeeper, Slacker, Spotify, StubHub, Ticketmaster, TripAdvisor, Tuntable.fm, Where I’ve Been, Words With Friends, Washington Post Social Reader, and Yahoo News. Businesses can create these apps as social media solutions for their website’s online branding.
Enabling Facebook Timeline Apps
It is actually pretty easy to turn on an app for Facebook timeline, all you have to do is go to the account settings in your Facebook account, click on apps, choose the app that you want and then edit the settings to enable it on Facebook timeline. In some apps it is easy to find the timeline option, while in others it is quite hard and you have to search. These apps can do wonders if you have a business and want to perform social media optimization on it.
But are these new Facebook timeline apps really a good upgrade to the ever evolving Facebook? Let us have a look at the various pros and cons that are attached to the new Facebook timeline apps.
Pros Of Facebook Timeline Apps
Facebook users can update their daily activities very easily. You can see what your friends are up to, what articles they read, what are the foods that they like. Users can record the events in their life easily and their friends would be able to view the images and pictures that are linked to that particular event in their lives. Users can see when their friends joined the site, when their birthdays are, how many friends they had at the end of each year so on and so forth.
Cons Of Facebook Timeline Apps
There are already many users who keep updating about each and everything that happens in their lives. There are times when people get irritated seeing frequent updates from these users about events that might be insignificant. With the integration of Facebook time line apps into the profiles of these users, other users will get even more updates frequently from these users and might feel even more irritated. Your Facebook friends might not be interested about the distance that you run every day. The products that you purchased from an online store or other similar events in your life.
Thankfully there is an option that appear in your profile that you can change so that your friends do not get all your updates from the Facebook timeline apps that you use. Facebook timeline apps is here to stay. It all depends on the Facebook user, how they use it and how beneficial it proves to be for them.
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