Wednesday 22 August 2012

McLuhan's Theory (Facebook timeline)

The medium is the message


Facebook timeline is the medium which allows people from all over the world connect to each other by sharing information.While the message is the information provided in the user's timeline, which allow other people to to see it.

Facebook timeline is the latest Facebook profile.The main feature of timeline is to sum up the story of our life since birth through photos, relationship and personal milestone which works like a personal digital diary.
The design of the timeline's milestone is in zig-zag style, from left to right unlike the previous version which is straight down.



Users are able to see the others general interest on their profile page, thus they can be friends to share their common interest.The size of the picture is shown much bigger compared to the previous version which will allow the users to see clearly and easily. Besides that, timeline allows users to edit their milestone by adding or deleting their post to show more stories of their life or to prevent embarrassing moment. Overall, timeline has more visual on the profile page compared to the older version of user's profile page. Therefore, the message of the timeline is to show more personal information of user to the others, in order to connect and know more about the person. Facebook has improve the profile page to to make it easy for the people from all around the world to make friends.The cover of the timeline also act as a canvas to allow the users to express their creativity.





It has cover page to allow the users to express themselves and having fun from it.













source: http://fiverr.com/dsynitcreative/design-fb-cover

           http://email-junk.com/photo/cool-facebook-timeline-cover.html

           http://designbomb.blogspot.com/2012/02/facebook-timeline-design-using-jquery.html

           http://mashable.com/2011/09/27/facebook-timeline-pages/

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