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Facebook - Spring cleaning in January with extended profile
Facebook made an announcement earlier and promised a clean up tool that would make profiles visible again under the clutter of applications. Well, the tool is here now, most likely to the dismay of developers trying to monetize Facebook, but it does make profiles a lot "tidier."Now, you have option to move your application boxes to your extended profile - allowing you to essentially keep both a sane and insane version of your profile. Nicely enough, you can choose which applications you want to move to the extended profile, so you can keep your basic profile as stuffed or as trim as you like. And, you can always change your mind by scrolling to down and clicking "Edit Extended Profile" on your profile page.
After you've made your choices, people that come to your profile will first be greeted by the sane version with an option to see the insane version which you've got stuffed with all those extra goodies.
If only cleaning the house was this easy.
[via Mashable]
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Jordan Running said 11:43PM on 1-16-2008
Waaaaaaait a second. I thought this fantastic new upcoming feature was supposed to let me choose what boxes will be shown and hidden on other people's profiles. How often do people look at their own profiles, as compared to their friends'? How many Facebook users are actually going to take the time to use this feature? For that matter, how many of them are even going to notice it's available, way down at the bottom there? I thought Facebook was doing something cool by allowing people to take control of the way they experience Facebook. Instead, they've rolled out a feature that is only marginally useful if everyone uses it, and which nobody is likely to use. Thanks, Facebook!
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scott said 7:35AM on 1-17-2008
if it's available, then where is it?> i cant find it anywhere on facebook
Todd Ritter said 8:12AM on 1-17-2008
Scott,
Login to Facebook, and click on "Profile" to view your own profile. Then scroll all the way to the bottom of your profile and click "Edit Extended Profile."
Charlie said 11:07AM on 1-19-2008
If you want to change the look of other peoples profiles,
Each application on a profile has a title bar, on the left hand side of which is a little arrow, if you click on the arrow it hides the box, displaying only the title bar.
This persists across profiles, so if you hide an application on one profile it hides it on every profile that you look at, if you ever for some reason want to look at it again, just click the arrow again and it comes back!
Jordan Running said 3:53PM on 1-19-2008
Yes, that hides the boxes, Charlie, but their content still gets loaded, so it doesn't speed up load times at all, unfortunately.