Facebook @mentions

Posted by Natasha D'Souza on Sep 28, 2009 in Blog, Facebook, new media, new media review | 0 comments

What makes a social network great asides from the obvious are the little touches that are added to make updating you status easy. In the age of less is more it’s nice to have these add-ons. Ok I am going to cut to the chase, it’s the @mentions or new tagging feature from Facebook. If you are a regular Twitter user you are very familiar with the @username, as a way of replying to the people you are having a conversation with. This feature is somewhat similar to Twitter however it’s not only user name based but contextual as...