Are you ready for the usual round of outrage / excitement from Facebook users? Facebook is rolling out the latest iteration of your profile page tonight (Sunday) and tomorrow (Monday December 6th) so be sure to check it out when you first get into the office 
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You can actually activate the new design right now! Simply click on Facebook’s announcement in your news stream to activate yours and check out all the new features, including revamped personal info, more prominent pictures, top interests showcased as images, more descriptive relationships and more.
Click here to get to the New Profile Activation Page
A New Introduction
The profile begins with a quick overview of basic information such as where you’re from, where you went to school, and where you work—the kinds of conversation starters you share with people you’ve just met or exchange with old friends as you get reacquainted.
And since there’s often no better way to learn about a person than through photos, the profile now includes a row of recently tagged photos of you. In my case, my profile features pics from my engagement and wedding, two of my life’s most recent and happiest moments.
Featured Friends
You can now highlight the friends who are important to you, such as your family, best friends or teammates. Create new groups of friends, or feature existing friends lists. I opted to feature my Ultimate Frisbee teammates, giving the rest of my friends a way to learn more about that part of my life.
New Experiences
The profile also gives you new ways to share your interests and activities. You can list the projects you worked on at your job, classes you took in school, your favorite musicians and sports teams, and more. You can also share your life philosophy by connecting to the religions, political affiliations, and people you follow and admire. All your interests and experiences are now represented with images, making your entire profile a more compelling visual experience.
Personally, I opted to add this profile project to my work history at Facebook, and I tagged the people who worked on it with me. I also added “Ultimate Frisbee” as one of the sports I play and included a description of my team’s victories at the USA Ultimate National Championships and World Championships.
Improved Photos and Friends Pages
Thanks to the cool new “infinite scroll” feature, it’s now much faster and more fun to browse all your photos. The Friends page now allows you to quickly find the people you’re looking for: just search by name, hometown, school or a number of other dimensions. I met a ton of new Ultimate players at Nationals, and the new profile has made it so much easier to locate and learn about them.
We’re really excited about the new profile. We’re rolling it out gradually and plan to get it to everyone by early next year. You can upgrade immediately or learn more about the new features on this page: www.facebook.com/about/profile.
Watch The Announcement
Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new design on CBS’ “60 Minutes” and you can check out the interview below. It’s a terrific look at how he feels about privacy, the film “The Social Network” and the new design.
All The New Changes & Features
Your profile now has a little “About Me”-esque section at the top, including where you work, where you went to school, where you live, etc. The option “Languages” has also been added.
Now a row of the most recently tagged snaps of you appear at the top of your profile. Luckily, you can click the “x” on the corner of the photo and take certain snaps out of the spotlight.
No more tabs. You can surf around your profile via links under your profile picture now. Also, under “Info,” “Philosophy” has been added, which groups together religious views, political views, favorite quotes and the newly added “People Who Inspire You.”
Let people know more about where you work and the people you work with by adding projects you worked on (at work) as well as classes you took. You can also add co-workers and classmates. This will be a nice way to keep contacts arranged in one place. Also, it should be useful for networking.
Now your interests are much more visual, making the profile itself pretty visually appealing and easy to navigate. The option “Sports” has also been added.
Instead of just having friends, relations and significant others, now you can group friends into categories, like “Best Friends,” “Work Buddies,” etc. This seems to be another move in Facebook’s efforts to depict users’ relationships. Friend search has also been revamped to be a much more visual experience.
Who made this decision??? The new layout no longer displays the latest status, which is one of the things I really liked about Facebook. Compared to this garbage the old one was much better. Check it out at http://bit.ly/gDUTNX ... FAIL!
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