"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:35:58 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > 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.
>>
>> Um, uh, wha? What wrong word did I use? And I know how to use FB too.
>
> Why does it always have to be about you even when YOU accused me of
> using a wrong word.
>> >
>> >> *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?
>
> Missed the point yet again.

I don't think there was a point.
>
>> Again... FB isn't a forum but it sounds like you
>> want it to be like one.
>
> No idea what you are talking about, but I don't care. As I said
> before, FB works the way *I* want it to work. I am not a victim that
> thinks it can only be treated one way.
>
> Good bye.

And I have no idea what *you* are talking about!