Show Off A Moment In Time With A Facebook Cover Photo

Facebook is once again attempting to blaze new frontiers by introducing some new display features for their users. One of them is Facebook cover photo. These covers present a new way for users can not only display their creativity and personality to their family, friends, and connections over a set period of activity time but is also allowing them their "five minutes of fame" in a kind of a photo clip for and about themselves. In other words, it is creating a very public (can't be made private) pictorial personality image that will appear just above the profile picture on the user's page that is the size of a large banner.

Now most people enjoy standing out from the crowd, which this cover photo will do, but the way it is being presented to its Facebook users, this is not an opt out feature for their page and will have a limited trial period to get use to what they have to work with the apps interface. And the reviews for this feature has so far have been far from rave.

As part of the new "feel" of the Facebook cover photo, users can upload images and photos from their own computer or from other sites to their page. The layouts of these graphics, which can be made compatible or interactive with the profile or other images in the upper quadrant of the page to give it that "wow" appearance that will be available to all viewers. For individual users, these covers would immortalize the events and human experiences of people's lives. So last year's family reunion and anniversary picture can help remember everyone remember the time of their lives.

For business users, Facebook cover photo of a community sponsoring or other company marketing campaigns creates that initial attention getter and potential branding, but as a clearly stated advertising or self-promotional piece as per terms of use with Facebook. Assuming that the campaign would be an ongoing or annual event or are using some other type of imaging that somewhat incorporate the company brand but not something that will quickly become dated can work since this photo is for the most part permanent.

Facebook cover photo users do need to keep in mind that not all photo formats may be compatible with the new interface. Since the photos are being re-sized to being longer and wider than what is normally accepted, the picture quality can be grainy at the very least or distorted at the most. Once you have a handle on the size of the covers, you can upload a Facebook cover photo that shows off a moment in life you're most proud of.

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Facebook Timeline and Its Most Appreciated Feature - Facebook Cover Photos

Facebook Timeline is the most recent item introduced on the social network and its most talked-about feature is Facebook Cover Photos, a tool meant to make a profile more attractive and personalized.

What is Facebook Timeline? Timeline is a section that is meant to substitute both the wall and the profile page, by merging them together, being thus some sort of a blending between an online scrapbook and a blog. It also makes navigation through posts much easier, as it shows your Facebook story in a reverse chronological order, listed by year on the right side of the page. The old Facebook wall as we all know it is structured chronologically, but searching for posts or updates older than a few months before is rather difficult.

What else is there to know about the Timeline? Besides the timeline embedded on the new type of profile that shows your Facebook activity history, people can now share "before Facebook" information as well, as everything added can be given a date. Therefore, if you went on Hawaii in 1991, for example, and you upload a photo and set that date, it will appear in the Timeline.

However, the most talked-about among the features of Timeline, seem to be Facebook Cover Photos - they are meant to individualize the web page. Because the profile pictures are just in a small format, most users choose something simple as their profile; Facebook Cover Photos, on the other hand, stretch across the width of the whole page, and users can use them to show something deeper, more personal, such as their family members, pets, favorite movie scenes or vacation spots. It is said that a carefully chosen image should not only adorn your profile, but should also let other people see a little bit of your personality.

One can choose to use as a cover one of their favorite photos (even one of those already on Facebook) or one can download a cover picture from the wide variety of photos that are to be found online. Another thing worth mentioning is that Facebook's staff also states that these customized timelines help them prevent spam and fake profiles, making thus the social network a more secure site.

Facebook is always changing and, with the recent Timeline introduced, it looks like Facebook Cover Photos will become the new trend in the future, even though not all users looks positively towards this change.

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