DISQUS

jonathonhewitt · 2 months ago

My major complaint is the fact that all of your "notifications" must be manually deleted or your message count will be off. The @mention in the message would be most beneficial too!

jonathonhewitt · 2 months ago

Well I believe with Facebook even coming out with @mentions is a copy off of Twitter in the first place so I believe it to be relevant to the post. My comment had to do with a reason that I like Twitter vs. Facebook. I could have been more clear and descriptive in the comments though. I don't like the fact that I can never seem to get rid of all of those stupid notifications so it shows a huge list of unread notifications (maybe the fact that I have tried to become friends with everyone in my local area has to do with it).

kevinarth · 2 months ago

Setting aside for the moment that your comment doesn't appear to be related to @mentions, I'm not sure I understand your comment. I never delete my notifications and my message count has never been affected. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you.

Alan · 2 months ago

It'd be nice if the "tagged" word/person/etc was a completely different color or highlighted in bold. The color differentiation is not great enough to really notice what's tagged. I also hope that Facebook adds a search function so you can see what people are tagging [ala trending topics]

kevinarth · 2 months ago

i agree with this. The differentiation isn't distinct enough.

For me to know :) · 2 months ago

I wonder if Facebook got permission from Twitter to do that?

Bjørn Rostad · 2 months ago

I think it is time for Facebook to say: Hi Twitter. Thanks for let us steal that. Too.

Mogar · 1 month ago

Twitter invented @tagging as much as Microsoft invented the graphical-user-interface. Yes, Twitter has done great things for bringing it into the common tongue / common language of the web, much as Microsoft did w/ the GUI; however neither invented either.

Baskar · 2 months ago

But it doesn't extend that to comment boxes...

pcloadletter · 2 months ago

RTFA

Neil Rubenstein · 2 months ago

I tried using the @ mention feature on my fan page but it doesn't seem to work on fan pages. It looks like it works but when you hit enter the link disappears. Just wanted to mention what looks like another oversight.

Amaliaday · 2 months ago

Today I was quoting my husband in my status update and used the @ feature. My status update also appeared on his wall.

aamir · 2 months ago

would you like to add me

cliffdogg79 · 2 months ago

what about mobile - i tried status updating this past weekend after witnessing UofM stealing a victory from the Irish with a "@friendx loves wolverine ____", yet to no avail. did i mistype the name of my "friend" or is it non-mobile friendly?

jimmy wijaya · 2 months ago

But I still can't using this feature
If I use this symbol @ on my status and result is no drapd0wn but what I'm write is g0ne.
Why ???

Flip · 2 months ago

Had that too. Is because I had # scripts installed on Firefox. Like the Facebook Fixer. Works now after I unchecked it. :-)

jimmy wijaya · 2 months ago

But I still can't using this feature
If I use this symbol @ on my status and result is no drapd0wn but what I'm write is g0ne.
Why ???

bloggeruser · 2 months ago

Its really a cool feature........ @Facebook Status

haut-parleur · 2 months ago

Just worked out twitter and now got to work out whats happening on FB now.

Twitter was a shock to realize that deleting updates did not delete them from search. And most experienced people use search.
I did a lot of bad language and insults before I knew what was happening. Never again!

kenwooi · 2 months ago

Cool =)

Zara Green · 2 months ago

Thanks for the thorough explanation...I was very confused when that "@" appeared while posting today. I have complete clarity now and although FaceBook is getting more and more like Twitter, which I didn't like when they first started changing, I'm kinda liking the same functionalities now. Embracing change is good :)

Thanks Again!

Ryan Lalonde · 2 months ago

Personally I think it's pretty straight forward how to use the @Mentions on Facebook. Like I said in another article, it's a pointless feature.

kevinarth · 2 months ago

I've used it a few times now. Seems pretty cool.

trendslate · 2 months ago

I wish they innovated instead of copying Twitter

fesmaili · 2 months ago

hi hi very happy for you

Morshad · 2 months ago

thx

Basel · 2 months ago

Doesn't work in Opera. Bummer!

mastoyshop · 2 months ago

thanks for keeping us up todate on these things. I hadnt noticed tagging yet as I was busy today tweeting Bonanzle's 100,000th user joining a great marketplace site. It was very exciting. Thanks again. ma

Jens Wiese · 2 months ago

Have a look at facebookmarketing.de. They found out, that you dont have to click in the dropdown box. Simple navigate up and down with arrow keys and select by pressing Enter.

Espree Devora · 2 months ago

Love Love Love this feature!

Marc Marius Mueller · 2 months ago

I did not use it until now because I thought the feature was not enabled yet. But thanks for updating me.

grijsz · 2 months ago

While that @reply at Twitter is more focused on the individual than the public on Facebook the @user_xyz is more focused on the public of my friends than on that user itself

Flavio · 2 months ago

It seems that it works only on profiles, since the system grabs the ID associated and attach it to the "/profile.php?id=" URL. So, if you try to tag a group or an event the resulting URL is wrong and goes nowhere. I guess this is just a bug they forgot to solve.

John Smith · 2 months ago

With these small variations in its @mentions Facebook wants to prove that it is not similar to Twitter replies rather it is a new feature for status updates. Fine, anyway this makes the status updates easier.

Luka · 2 months ago

This feature is not very good for users with different languages because George is not always George but the name changes based on how you use the name.

Also, using Twitter with @FB Name for updating FB status won't work.

Not really useful right now. :/

ryryrox · 2 months ago

two things to make this really neat 1) @mentions in the comments 2) mobile @mentions and so far i am the only one of my friends that is using this and its tripping them out. haha surely I will link them to this post. THANKS!

drikkes · 2 months ago

Clever move.

Luigi Picarazzi · 2 months ago

I love this new feature but the one thing I dont like about it is that you have to be an existing fan of a public page in order to reference it. Limits the conversation. They should allow people to reference public pages since companies have chosen to make them "public".

Charlie Wilson · 2 months ago

This article is written terribly. I hate reading stuff that is this poorly written yet still published, even if only on the internet. Twitter is retarded I dont think fb should be trying to replicate any part of that site. The status updates are already a little annoying, for example i dont care that sara finally believes in love. People have serious self esteem issues if they feel the need to share stuff like that. A good use of the status update feature is for things like, hey check out this video I found, or I want everyone to welcome back my brother from Iraq, but snuggling with my babe, or off to the std clinic are unnecessary. And btw, I dont know how old twitter is, but fb has had the status update feature practically since its inception.

kevinarth · 2 months ago

It sounds like your problem has more to do with your perception of the usefulness of Twitter and less about the @mentions feature specifically. If you don't believe in the service (you're in somewhat of a minority on this point, I think), then you certainly wouldn't appreciate this new feature. Those of us who are heavy Twitter users and Facebook users (not to mention Friendfeed), find the value in such convergence.

Lydia Barry Kutko · 2 months ago

having the @ be only part of the syntax and not the final makes this seem much less about the application and more about what messages are trying to be conveyed.

katenonymous · 2 months ago

I manage a page and am seeing tagged status updates that I can't imagine the person meant to share on my page. I find it hard to believe that, for example, someone wants to share info about their daily personal hygiene that broadly. Not sure that people understand how this actually plays out--and I wish Facebook would provide a "disable" feature for page admins.

Tom Sprows · 2 months ago

It would also be nice for this feature to happen via the API as well. (Twitter supports this)

amydmonroe · 2 months ago

Sweet! Thanks for the tutorial.

Tony Anderson · 2 months ago

Some of you all need to give it a rest. Twitter did not invent tagging and they certainly didn't create the @symbol. FB could have used any key they wanted to to invoke it. I'm rather thankful that they chose to keep something about the 'net consistent in that regard. There's zero reason to have to remember multiple ways to do the same thing just because you sliding down a different pipe.

This feature will be nice. It'll add some context to my updates when I mention people. I think that's a good thing. If you don't like it, just don't use it.

Nashville seo · 2 months ago

Facebook, the Microsoft of Social Media. Their brand, your innovation...from five years ago.

Elyse · 2 months ago

Hmm... but unlike FB note tagging, if you neglect to tag a person when you initially type the status line, there is no option to add the tag after the fact (once people have commented on my status, I don't want to repost it just to add a tag that I've missed putting in). Or am I missing out on how to do this?

Cielo · 2 months ago

This is actually used by Plurk

source control · 2 months ago

Thank you for the detailed instruction.

Ankur Moulik · 2 months ago

Just the same way as we tag on Twitter.
Albeit,Facebook had done a great thing also recently i updated my status by tagging friends.

lea · 2 months ago

yeah right!!

lea · 2 months ago

no ur'e wrong

lea · 2 months ago

hey help me!! save me!!

lea · 2 months ago

ur'e cute

mrspatb · 2 months ago

I accidentally put a confirmation of a prescription on facebook how do I erase it. I don't know anything about the site. It was just in my file and I wanted to see what it was. Its out of my age group.

alia · 2 months ago

How did you take away the number symbols??? HELP PLZ!

Susan Mallery · 1 month ago

I'm an author with a Facebook fan page (http://facebook.com/susanmallery), and I've asked my fans to @mention me so I could test out this feature. Several have reported back that they did so, but none of their @mentions appeared on my wall. Do I need to change settings to make that happen?

Name · 1 month ago

how do you turn that off?

drewburks · 1 month ago

I agree -this is a nice added feature, but missing some important features like the tagging in comments & on other people's wall. I hope FB adds this feature and stops messing with the news feed. I hate the latest news feed/live feed BS

Herbalife · 1 month ago

These are really cool features. Had no idea they existed and look forward to using them for my online business as a means to reach out to my existing customers.

Jerry · 2 weeks ago

It doesn't work for me... I press @ and nothing happens... can someone please help?