Thursday, September 17, 2009

Status tagging begins on social media site

People will soon be able to tag their friends, events and groups within their Facebook status updates.

People will now be able to tag other people in their status updates on the social media website Facebook.

The new feature will be rolled out over the next few weeks and will see users being able to tag other people within their own status updates, according to a post by Tom Occhino on the social networking site's blog.

By adding an "@" symbol before writing someone's name in a status update, a drop-down menu will let you pick which friend is being referred to, with the same going for events or groups too.

He said: "We hope that tagging your status updates and other's posts from the Publisher will enable you to share in a more meaningful and engaging way and connect with even more people."

Facebook already allows users to tag each other in photos and videos, which Mr Occhino claimed is one of the most popular features of the website.

Last week, an industry insider, Tim Gibbon, commented that social networking sites have woken people up to new ways of sharing content such as photos and games.

14/09/2009

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