Facebook update details
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Facebook has provided new information about the upcoming update of user profiles, which they intended to carry out in April.
Profiles will be divided into five categories: Updates (Feed), Wall (Wall), User Data (Info), Photos (Photos) and Subsections (Boxes). The “Updates” section, as before, will contain news, but they will become short, capacious and will occupy only one line.
Something is not clear with the sections Feed (Updates) and Wall (Wall). It seems that users will be able to post in the Feed section of their friends. This will be possible thanks to a new option called Publisher tool. It is presented by developers as a replacement for the previous option to attach multimedia files to the walls of friends. Now it will be possible to leave only text messages on the walls. Thus, the services Wall and Mini-feed will be combined.
Some people believe that the new Publisher service will also allow you to communicate through comments (which resembles FriendFeed), but nothing has been said about this in official documents. The screenshots show that the comments will be an exchange of messages from the walls of users.
The “Boxes” section will be located in that part of the page where the subsections are currently located indicating the applications used. All five sections will be installed by default, but for their favorite applications, users can add their own sections in the form of pages that look like canvases. It seems that the Facebook leadership is putting pressure on the developers: they hid the profile sections in the “Boxes” category, but compensated for it with new full-fledged pages. It is also reported that Facebook will allow you to create up to 5 subsections of applications that will be displayed on the left side of the screen, but will be strictly limited in size.
Unfortunately, Facebook has not yet presented a single screenshot of the new design, with the exception of the above, but it gives almost no idea about the update.
More information can be found on Inside Facebook .