A few months ago, I was thinking about my mother when, at one of our engineering hackathons, I began working on ideas for how to highlight more of the important people in my life. You already could specify if you were in a romantic relationship with someone, so why not also be able to list your parents, children and siblings?

In celebration of Mother's Day on Sunday in the United States and many other countries, we decided to polish off that hackathon code and launch the option for listing your family on your Facebook profile.

Starting later today and through this weekend, you'll begin seeing a new "Family Members" section within the Information tab on your profile. Enter your mother, for example, and she'll be added to your profile. She'll also be sent a request that appears similar to a relationship request. Once she confirms, you'll then appear on her profile, as well, and both of your profiles will be linked as shown below.