Facebook Status Update Tagging Now Automatically Suggests Matches for People, Pages and Other Content

Facebook has just changed its status update tagging tool to automatically display a drop-down menu of friends, Pages, events and groups you might be trying to tag. Users can still enter an @ symbol followed by the name of something to tag it, but now will see matches for any word they capitalize. It appears that only those with access to Facebook Questions and the new status publisher associated with it can currently use the new tagging method.

The drop-downs appear in real time as you type, which could encourage tagging for those unfamiliar with the @ method.

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