It’s about Timeline – New Zealand gets new Facebook profiles redesign

Facebook is finally starting to make Timeline, a redesigned member profile page, available to a wider portion of its user base.

The roll out starts in New Zealand and comes more than two months after the Palo Alto company announced the redesign at its developers conference in San Francisco.

A Facebook company blog update on Tuesday said more than one million people have already switched to the new format using a developer beta. But that still leaves more than 799 million members around the world.

“The feedback we’ve received so far has been invaluable,” the post said. “Starting today, we are making Timeline more widely available as we measure speed and other types of performance. We’ll begin by making it available to people in New Zealand and then roll it out more broadly in the near future.”

The wider distribution of Timeline comes a week after Facebook settled a Federal Trade Commission complaint that the social network “deceived consumers” by failing to keep promises to protect the privacy rights of members.

It’ll be interesting to see how many complaints Facebook receives over Timeline, which is a major redesign of the member’s profile page. The graphically rich page is designed to highlight top moments of a person’s social life, but could make some personal details more accessible than the member wants.