Find a high-value pain point in Facebook's Timeline and design the fix

You are a product manager at Meta and have been asked to make Facebook's Timeline better. Decide who the change is for, which problem it solves and what you would build first. ```hint Two sides of one page A Timeline has an owner who posts to it and shapes it, and visitors who come to look. Work out how their needs differ before you choose whom to serve. ``` ### Clarifying Questions - By "Timeline", do you mean the profile page where a person's own posts and life events collect, or the home feed? - What should the improvement move: how often people post to or update their own profiles, how often others visit them, or how satisfied people are with them? - Should I focus on the mobile app, desktop, or both? ### What a Strong Answer Covers - What the Timeline is for today, and a goal for the improvement tied to Meta's mission and business - A chosen user segment, compared against alternatives, and why it is the right place to start - Pain points specific to that segment, prioritized with reasoning - Solutions with a prioritized MVP and what is deferred - Success metrics with guardrails, plus risks such as privacy and knock-on effects elsewhere in Facebook ### Follow-up Questions - How would you test your change, and what result would make you roll it back? - If data showed younger users rarely post to their own profiles and share mostly through stories and messages, how would your plan change? - Your change could alter what shows up in friends' News Feeds. How would you check that it does not hurt the feed?