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Facebook Gifts is a new way to give real gifts and gift cards to people on Facebook. Senders are able to choose a real gift, attach a card and send right from desktop or mobile. Gift previews can be posted to a friend's timeline, or sent privately. Senders don't need to know the recipient's address – recipients enter it themselves and the gift shows up on their doorstep a few days later. People can choose from hundreds of gifts, make a charitable contribution or simply preload the reusable Facebook Card with funds to be spent at friends' favorite retailers and restaurants.

Launched: September 2012

Introducing Facebook Gifts
iTunes Gifts Now on Facebook
Charitable Contributions on Facebook Gifts

News feed is a regularly updating list of stories from friends, pages, and other connections, like groups and events. People can like or comment on what they see. Each person’s news feed is personalized based on their interests and the sharing activity of their friends.

Introduced: September 2006

A New Look for Newsfeed
Interesting News, Any Time You Visit

Timeline is a new kind of profile that lets people organize and highlight the events and activities that matter most to them. People choose the information they want to share on their timeline, such as their interests, photos and work history. They also control who sees each piece of content.

Introduced: September 2011

Improvements to Timeline
More About Timeline
Tell Your Story With Timeline

Graph Search is the structured search tool that lets you use simple phrases like "Photos of my friends in Paris," to find people, places, photos and other info shared with you on Facebook. Once turned on, Graph Search replaces the search bar at the top of every page of Facebook. Graph Search beta is available on the web for a limited English (US) audience, and work is under way to expand to mobile and international audiences.

Facebook Messages weaves messages, emails, chats, and text messages together in one ongoing conversation. This makes it easy for people to communicate from whichever device they’re using to access Facebook – whether they’re chatting on the web or texting on the go. Messages are organized by conversations with friends or groups of friends. Thanks to smart filtering, people always see messages from their friends and friends of friends first.

Introduced: February 2004

More About Messages
See the Messages That Matter

With more than 300 million photos uploaded each day, Facebook is the most popular photo uploading service on the web. People can upload an unlimited number of videos and high-resolution photos, create albums, and share with their friends or any audience they choose. It’s easy to add details like captions, locations and tags. Tagging lets people identify a friend in a photo or video, easily sharing that content with them.

Introduced: October 2005

Introducing Facebook Camera
Improving the Photos Experience
Bigger, Faster Photos

Groups are private spaces within Facebook for people to discuss common interests. People create groups to share with small sets of people, like family, teammates or best friends. People within a group can post updates, photos and chat with everyone at once. People can customize the privacy settings for each group they create.

Introduced: September 2004

Introducing Groups for Schools
New Groups: Stay Closer to Groups of People in Your Life

With events, people can organize gatherings, manage invitations and send notifications and reminders to their friends. People can use events to invite their friends to anything from a dinner party or a community fundraiser. There are currently more than 16 million events created on Facebook each month.