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the first major difference to a timeline profile is the large cover photo at the top of the page by hovering your mouse cursor over the space you can easily change the picture choose from photos and existing facebook albums or upload a new one next you'll want to organize your page below the cover photo you'll find all of your profiles information that was in a left-hand column now clustered into different categories are apps friends education relationship status photos etc by clicking each app you can adjust the privacy setting for who sees what and for how you want those apps ordered or even shown at all now that the top of your page is arranged it's time to dig into the actual timeline the idea is that all of your status updates and posts will now be arranged chronologically and since your timeline goes back to your birth you can fill in any blanks by posting old photos or adding events again each item on the timeline is customizable for privacy and for which of your friends can view it hopefully using timeline is your actual profile will soon become second nature and perhaps even useful for recording your life in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News