NEW YORK — Facebook is redesigning the profile pages of its 500 million-plus users to make it more of a reflection of their real lives and emphasize one of the site’s most popular features, photos.

Facebook said in a blog post Sunday the changes are meant to make it easier for users to tell their story — who they are, where they work, their life philosophy and the most important people in their lives. The changes place a bigger emphasis on visuals, from photos to images of users’ interests.

A new biography section includes not just who you are and where you live but a set of the most recent photos that your friends have “tagged” you in. Previously users had to click on a tab to see the latest photos on a profile.

Users can also feature important friends in their profile, while previously only random selection appeared. And in addition to listing their job, users can now add the projects they worked on. It’s all a move toward curating a more complete picture of a person, something that will likely appeal to Facebook’s advertisers. The company did not make any changes to its privacy policy as part of the redesign.

Facebook unveiled the redesign ahead of an appearance on 60 Minutes by CEO Mark Zuckerberg Sunday evening. Even small changes to users’ home pages tend to meet with protests from a small but vocal fraction of Facebook users who want things to stay the way they are.