Facebook users in New Zealand experience Timeline first

Rev. Fr. Elmer Ibarra, SVD, a Filipino missionary serving as a parish priest in Wellington, is one of roughly two million Facebook users in New Zealand whose profiles on the social networking hub have been enabled to access and activate the much-touted Timeline.   Facebook chose New Zealand as the springboard for the December 6 Timeline rollout. Fr. Elmer has had his Timeline switched on several days now.   “I like the way it is presented and it still holds the basic features like friends, photos, likes, maps. It's good going back in time to look at what I have posted,” Fr. Elmer said in an email to GMA News Online.   Before being sent to serve overseas, Fr. Elmer was assigned at various times to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Kamuning, Quezon City—the parish where the GMA Network is headquartered.   In a blog post, the social network juggernaut announced that the Facebook Timeline rolled out two months after it was introduced at the company's 'f8' conference in September.   "Tell your life story with a new kind of profile," said Facebook. The Timeline enables users to show off the most important happenings in their life in one page and even scroll their way down to the time when they first joined the social network to the day they were born.    It also gives users the option to add important life moments that happened in their lives before Facebook arrived via the Life Events feature.   Some Facebook users who opted to stick with the static "Profile" even if the Timeline was made available for manual activation in the months past are starting to miss the old look, while others can't get enough of the new feature.  

  Some may see it as a move to increase leverage over search giant Google's social network initiative with Google+.   With Timeline, Facebook provides the  digital space where users can access literally see their life flash before their eyes. The new feature also entwines Facebook with its users' lives through a continuing work in progress.    As the line of The Social Network movie goes: "It won't be finished. That's the point. The way fashion's never finished." — GMA News