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hey everyone I'm Sharon Vaknin for cnet.com here to walk you through the new facebook profiles now known as your timeline timelines are completely different than your profile and they start with a new edition called the cover photo for my profile I picked this photo of myself but it can be whatever you want like a photo of your dog or your favorite city to change it hover over your photo select change cover and choose a photo from your facebook albums or upload one from your drive just blow your cover photo you'll see all of your info on the left and other profile items like friends apps and photos on the right to edit or change the privacy settings for any of these items click on the item this works for your info photos friends and other modules you can also decide which boxes show up at the top click the arrow to expand hover over a box and click the pencil there is an option to swap the box with something else or remove it entirely there is a new app called maps which is a geographical version of your timeline it plots points where you've tagged a location in any of your posts it's pretty cool but if you think it's creepy hover over the box and remove it now comes the fun and kind of scary part your timeline all of your Facebook activity is now viewable to you and your friends in chronological order going all the way back to the day joined facebook in the very beginning you'll see an empty section for the day you were born the idea is that facebook wants you to fill in events that happen throughout your life even before Facebook to add an event hover over the point in the timeline where it happened and click the grey line you have the option to add a status update photo location you visited or type of life event for example maybe you learned a new language broke a bone bought a new car or graduated there are about 20 different suggested events but if you want to add something of your own just click other life event once you fill in the information the story will be added to your time line and it will show up in your recent activity at the top but what if you want to hide some events from your timeline you might be embarrassed or regretful about things you post it in the past but luckily you can hide them the easiest way to hide old posts is by going to view activity at the top here you'll see a simplified version of your timeline which you can filter by type once you find the post you want to remove click the arrow next to the story and you'll see many privacy options you can hide it from your timeline change the privacy settings or delete the post entirely which means it's never coming back if you have a lot of old pose you would rather hide this process might take a while but at least you only have to do it once once you've added and removed posts from your timeline you can start featuring the ones you want to highlight find the post you want to feature hover over it and click the star to make it full with too unfit for it just click the star again when you've tweaked your profile to your liking click the Settings button here at the top and select view as then enter any friends named to see what it looks like to them or click public to see what your timeline looks like to everyone including people who aren't your friends I know this is a big change so if you have any questions feel free to ask me on Twitter or of course my facebook page for see nut I'm Sharon Vaknin and I'll see you on the interwebs