Facebook Timeline Profile Pic Size Increased

Some time back there was news doing the rounds when Facebook made its photo viewer pretty much the same as the one that users were used to on Google plus. And then while it was just like yesterday that we detailed on the cosmetic changes that Google made to its social network, we were still thinking of why Google chose to put that size for the profile pic and quite a contrast for the cover photo. Well, it seems we will have to pause that thought for a while since Facebook gave us some food for thought here. Just days after the search engine giant's social media product got (as we said earlier) a whole bunch of cosmetic changes. 
On details, unless you are a brand page on Facebook; your profile pic that occupies the bottom left corner of your Facebook Timeline cover photo (in fact dropping a little below it) has grown without you (in all possibilities) noticing anything weird. This happened a few days back. The profile pic which measured 130 x 125 pixels just ta few days ago has been given a size of 166 x 160 pixels. Enough of a noticeable increase but we are sure it went pretty much unnoticed. Have a look at the two screen shots from one of our reader's Facebook Timeline...

See the changes? Yes, the profile pic got bigger. And we love the way Facebook rolls out these small, subtle yet interesting updates to the platform suggesting a coincidence on the updates that its biggest challenger made a few days back :)
The pics that we are talking about is still the preview sort of your main profile pic that you can see once you click on this pic that has been a part of your Timeline cover. The change has been made only on your Timeline and not anywhere else.

However, people like us who have a brand page on the social media platform were ignored for no reason it seems. The brand pages Timeline pic were left unchanged and are still the same size as they were before this change.

Our Views

Facebook does have a habit of making small changes every now and then to be discovered suddenly by their users. Which is not that bad considering it to be a much of a over burden to be providing an announcement every now and then for the small updates being made. But in this case we think the option of announcement made sense. Especially since the concept of Timeline and the cover photo had quite a few out there getting their designers cap on and creating all those wonderful symmetric covers and in process cutting out the profile pic from the it. Not that this size change will undo all that effort but it will surely put quite a few of the cover photos look out of symmetry.

This problem/issue that we stated above may be the reason of why brand pages were left n the first place. Putting a brand cover out of symmetry would have more of an impact than a standalone personal profile.

Did you notice any profile's Timeline cover going out of symmetry because of this change in size? Or any of your friend going nuts over this update from the social media giant? Let us know in the comments and till then Keep Crunching!!


Update 4/19/2012:
It seems Facebook has plans for the brand page profile pic as well. We received this announcement from Facebook for our blog page with them. As you see clearly, the date has been set t April 26, exactly a week from now. So all you who have pages there on the network, gear up and get a nice bigger picture for your brand pages. The size will be 160 x 160 pixels and will sit at 23 pixels from the left and 210 pixels from the top of the Page.

Hemant S.

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A Software Engineer belonging to Rajasthan, India and currently put up in another lovely city of India, Pune.
Hemant works with one of the leading software companies in India, Tata Consultancy Services. And he is yet another of our readers who is a proud owner of an Android Phone!! Connect with him on Facebook for his day to day life!