6 Steps to Using Facebook’s New Profile
Timeline, Facebook’s new profile, allows you to go beyond the here and now and tell your story through photos, friendships, and personal milestones like graduating or traveling to new places. Imagine the multiplied impact if many of the Christians within someone’s Facebook sphere updated their Timeline to include their faith journey! Facebook’s new Timeline is a great opportunity to share your life’s story along the themes that really matter to you and your friends.
Here’s how:
1. Think through your themes. What is your story really about? From LifeMap, consider your:
History
these are big milestones (e.g. birth, ethnicity, family, where you grew up, went to school, etc.)
Highlights
these could be people or events in your life (e.g. giving your life to Christ, conversations, retreats, trips)
Heartaches
these shape who you are (e.g. parents split, girlfriend breaks up with you, close friend dies)
Heroes
these people are personal heroes who have touched your life (e.g. uncle, grandmother, schoolteacher, youth pastor)
Hand of God
the events in which you can now see the Hand of God was guiding you in a spiritual journey, drawing you closer to God.
2. Add significant events that fit your theme into your Timeline
using pictures and video whenever possible. If you don’t have pictures, consider taking a digital pic of a photo from your scrapbook, photo albums. If you don’t have video of a significant event, consider narrating a simple Web-cam video.
