On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:40:05 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:00:17 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "sf" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >> > On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 23:40:16 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> >> > > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> What does "tag" me mean? I know what it means to tag someone in a
> >> >> photo
> >> >> but
> >> >> not beyond that.
> >> >
> >> > I use the @ symbol and start typing their name.
> >> > https://www.facebook.com/help/218027134882349
> >>
> >> That wasn't very helpful. It said that it may send them a response.
> >
> > Huh? Are you sure you use Facebook? It said and I quote: When you
> > *comment on a post*, you can link to someone in your response by
> > following the same steps as above.
>
> Oops! I read the info. on your link wrong. It thought it said that it may
> send. It says that "you may send"...
> >
> > IOW it's a thread and you are replying to a post, probably to someone
> > upstream. FB doesn't do subthreads, it's just one long conversation.
> > If you comment on a friend's post, there are often many people
> > involved that you don't know because they are your friend's friends.
> > Maybe you are replying directly to a comment upstream. How will that
> > person know you're replying to him/her if you don't tag them? Maybe
> > you've unsubscribed from notifications of new comments on the thread
> > - which I do when they are long and active with lots of participants I
> > don't know and I'm tired of the subject. How are you going to know
> > someone has replied to one of your comments without being tagged?
> > Like I said, FB gives you the notification and then it's up to you to
> > read and reply.
>
> I have no idea what upstream means. I don't know what subthreads means.

GIYF

> I
> have never tagged anyone and AFIAK nobody has ever tagged me. Mostly when I
> talk to people on FB I chat with them. If I want to comment on a post, I
> just comment. I don't know about subscribing or unsubscribing from
> notifications. AFAIK whenever there is a reply to a comment I have made,
> whever someone else has commented on it, I get that little pinging noise so
> long as I am online.
>
> Whatever you are doing, you are making things complicated in my mind. You
> and I obviously don't use FB in the same way. And whatever you are doing is
> not something I'd want to do. Seems to me that you are wanting it to be
> more like a forum and it's not.

I don't play victim and make it work the way I want it to work.

>
> My memory isn't all that bad. If I comment on a post and I really want to
> go back and see responses, I'll just go look at that post. That isn't hard
> to do. I hate being notified of things.
> >
> >> If I want to send someone a message, I just send it!
> >
> > How are you going to email them if you aren't on their FB friends
> > list? My settings are for friends only and I don't want to "friend"
> > some stranger just so they can send me a private email. Ain't gonna
> > happen.
>
> You don't email them! You send them a message via FB. You tell me that *I*
> don't know how to use it but it sounds like *you* don't know how to use it.
> You don't post to their wall. You just send a message. That way only
> *they* see it. That's why the message button is on there.
>
So I used the wrong word, BFD. At least I know how to use FB.

> *Walks away shaking head*

If you think you can message me without being on my list of friends,
you're sadly mistaken.


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