"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:40:05 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:00:17 -0800, "Julie Bove"
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> >> > 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.

Um, uh, wha? What wrong word did I use? And I know how to use FB too.
>
>> *Walks away shaking head*
>
> If you think you can message me without being on my list of friends,
> you're sadly mistaken.

I don't want to message you. Nor do I want to message anyone else who isn't
my friend. Why would I? Again... FB isn't a forum but it sounds like you
want it to be like one.