This was the most popular layout that allowed users to easily interact with their friends. The wall also had mini-privacy settings on the bottom right corner of the text box that allowed users to control the visibility settings. Facebook Timeline is the newest layout update to Facebook. The Timeline merges the profile of the user and the wall pages.
It displays information in a visual, scrolling, reverse-chronologically ordered timeline. Posts and events are displayed in the middle of the profile, with the option of adding events that occurred prior to the user joining Facebook as well as "hiding" posts. There are also pages with added information on the top that allows users to change between the About, Photos and other pages. The settings page has been shifted to the top right hand corner where the person must hit the drop-down menu and choose settings option.
Facebook Wall and Timeline are completely different profile options. While, the Wall was a bit easier to understand and work with, Timelines is a little tricky to initially grasp.
The news feed houses your posts indefinitely or until you manually delete them. A story is a temporary form of content that lasts a day only. However, you can still access your stories using Facebook's Archive feature. You can even create story highlights to display them on your Facebook profile. Posts published on your newsfeed are viewable on Facebook mobile apps Android and iOS , the Lite app on Android, and the website.
Stories are accessible via Facebook mobile apps, its website, the Lite app, and Facebook Messenger. Yes, stories can be automatically cross-posted on Facebook Messenger if privacy settings are set to make your stories visible to Public. You can create stories from Facebook Messenger too but they are different from Facebook stories in terms of creative options.
Stories have a dedicated section for themselves. When you share something to your story, it is viewable in two places. Firstly, at the top of the Facebook feed and at the top of the chat list in Facebook Messenger.
You can also create a story from there and view stories from other people. The content in the news feed seems to get lost in a sea of posts from other users. The news feed content is available under the stories section on Facebook. Since stories have a dedicated section, publishing a post as a story has an advantage that it reaches more people.
There are extra chances of it getting viewed by others as compared to posting on feed. All thanks to grouping of stories for a person. If you go with the News Feed option, people can like and comment on such posts. These likes and comments will be visible to your other Facebook friends as well. Same goes for comments, which are known as replies on stories.
You will get those on Facebook Messenger. You will only know that when someone likes or comments on your post. When someone watches your story, you can check who viewed it. For that, open the published story and tap on the eye icon. We all make mistakes. To rectify them, Facebook lets you edit the posts that you publish on your news feed. That is, you can change the text of the post.
But rectifying it has never been easier. Facebook allows the users to edit the caption or the posts which you can publish on the feed.
However, Your Story does not have the same feature. You would have to republish the story with necessary modifications. The audience of news feed posts and Stories are independent of each other. The privacy settings on Facebook allows the users to select among:. If you choose to go Public with the stories, it is accessible to your Messenger friends as well.
Choosing this setting allows your messenger friends who might not be on your friend list to view your story. In News Feed posts, users are allowed to enhance their posts using limited options like adding background to text, cropping or rotating images.
While stories share a personal glimpse of your daily life to your friends, it also allows you to share informal content which you would like your friends to see. On the other hand, posting on the Facebook News Feed is a strong decision and you should put in a thought before posting, because once published it stays visible forever. Back To Home. But what is the difference between the two? Find out in this blog. Access Accessible anytime Accessible through Archive feature, only to creator Basic Difference News Feed, which is the core functionality of Facebook, has been a feature since the beginning.
Placement Stories appear on the top section of the news feed. Visibility Since Your Story has a dedicated section at the top of the timeline, it reaches out to more people.
Reaction Posts on the News Feed allows the users to like, comment and share the posts with their friend list as well.
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