Facebook Is Where It's @
Facebook is taking a page out of Twitter’s book, introducing the ability for users to tag their friends by typing the “@” symbol before their names, after which the message is displayed with a link to the tagged profile but without the symbol, TechCrunch reported.
Tagged users will also receive notifications and wall posts, and those users have the option of removing the tags.
Facebook engineer Tom Occhino detailed the new tagging method in a post on The Facebook Blog:
Now, when you are writing a status update and want to add a friend’s name to something you are posting, just include the “@” symbol beforehand.
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