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" So, what&amp;#039;s changing? Things are becoming more personal. You&amp;#039;ll be able to edit privacy settings for everything individually, and you&amp;#039;ll be able to connect with people you&amp;#039;re not even friends with. You may have already noticed a few updates that rolled out this week, but here&amp;#039;s a breakdown of the few biggest changes to come: Subscribe Button You can now &amp;quot;subscribe&amp;quot; to people on Facebook that you aren&amp;#039;t friends with. You&amp;#039;ll notice this button at the top of every person&amp;#039;s profile. This allows you to get their news feed updates (at least anything they share publicly, not just with friends only) in your home feed, right along with those from your existing friends. Think: Celebs, politicians, and other high-profile figures. Don&amp;#039;t think: Your hot ex-boyfriend who de-friended you after you broke up. Just let that one be. The Timeline Let&amp;#039;s be real here: Facebook is made for stalkers. And since the fine folks at FBHQ don&amp;#039;t want you miss a move your stalkees -- er, friends -- make, they&amp;#039;ve introduced features like &amp;quot;Recent Stories&amp;quot; (where everything you haven&amp;#039;t seen since your last Facebook login gets bubbled up to the top of your news feed) and The Timeline. The Timeline is a new visual feature that will live at the top of your profile. Think of it as a little flipbook where you can add your most important photos, updates, and even notable achievements in your fave online games (hey, scoring a 50-point word in Words With Friends is notable!). The purpose? So people who check your profile will see the most important things you&amp;#039;re doing, not just the most recent ones. You&amp;#039;ll be able to go back to your Facebook Activity Log (more on that below) and add old updates, photos, and info you shared in the past to your timeline, too, and everything you post here on out you can choose to include in this section (or not). Activity Log Behold: Everything you&amp;#039;ve ever done on Facebook, in one convenient place. That&amp;#039;s the Activity Log, and it&amp;#039;s like your own personal social media diary. Go back and reminisce about things you posted one year ago today, or to edit privacy settings for individual status updates (Did you really forget that your boss could see that one about &amp;#039;Going streaking, Wooooooo!&amp;#039; last summer? Whoops.) What&amp;#039;s cool about the changes: Erm, we can subscribe to Ryan Gosling? We&amp;#039;re there. And being able to edit privacy for individual posts? Love it. What&amp;#039;s not that cool about the changes: Just that &amp;quot;WTF&amp;quot; moment when you first log on (you&amp;#039;ll see what we mean in the next week or so as the changes roll out). And, um, speaking of Facebook, are you a fan of Cosmo?! Come see what you&amp;#039;re missing, we&amp;#039;ll welcome you with open arms -- promise! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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