Facebook is introducing/ has introduced the new timeline feature for it’s Fan pages. How will this affect custom landing pages?
PROS Images - The ability to enhance the user’s experience with a captivating cover photo is excellent. Images that you share on the timeline appear larger than the old format, and you can even make them larger by clicking the ‘star’ on the post. (You can expand any post to make it more prominent by clicking the star, but it is most effective with media) The ability to add custom images for applications. Messaging – Your fans can now send you a private message! I recommend keeping conversations on the timeline as much as possible, but this function will be very useful. You can keep your personal profile from being revealed, while being able to private message. The user must initiate contact. Pinning posts – You can pin a post. This is like making a forum topic ‘sticky’. A pinned post will be placed at the top of the timeline for a period of 7 days. After the 7 days, the pinned post will return to its original, chronological order on the timeline. Admin Panel – The Admin Panel is located above your page’s timeline. It is only visible to page admins, and it contains who likes your facebook page, facebook insights, and recent activity. Above these options are three drop down menus. These menus contain links to edit the page, see all activity (including all deleted/hidden posts), and helpful links to pages guides. Friend connection area- When someone visits your page, they will see which of their friends likes your page, and any activity their friends have on the page. This is helpful in converting the visitor into a ‘fan’. This area is prominently displayed on the top right portion of the timeline, just beneath the applications links. It is very easy to look into the past, and see what happened 3 years ago with a single click. No more scrolling for hours
I think this is an awesome idea too add this into facebook pages. There is so many more ways now that we can optimize this and get more traffic too out websites / whatever.
Most of the people around me don't like the new timeline feature of fcbk ... and still use it ... why ? Probably to be ''in'', to do like the others ... Still, I can understand why some like to use it, original and also the layout cover picture in the back seems nice for the profile appearance Just wondering, how many times more, how often fcbk team will decide to change the fcbk landscape we get so quickly used to after all ... Something new changes our habits, people start complaining then people get used to it and even forget something else existed before