How To Tag Your Friends In Your Facebook Status Updates
Facebook Tagging is now up and running! Below you can see auto-search for tagging in action (works flawlessly)and SheGeeks reader LaVeda Mason testing out the new @mentions feature in her Facebook status update. Facebook Tagging Note: The tagging feature does not load all of your Facebook friends when searching for them, only the first 4...
Battle Of The @ Symbol: Facebook VS Twitter And Who Does It Better
Today, Facebook is rolling out a new feature that has a ton of people contemplating the future of Twitter: Facebook @mentions. If you’re a twitter user, you’re familiar with the @reply feature used to signal a response to another twitter user. You already have similar functionality, better known as tagging, in Facebook for uploads of...
FaceFriend: Why The SocialGeeks Are Preparing For A FriendFeed Meltdown (And So Should You)
I interrupt your regularly scheduled RSS consumption to bring to a) give you a break from feed reading, and b) notify you of an emergency podcasting that took place last night amongst TheSocialGeeks team. Chris Miller, Sarah Perez, Wayne Sutton, JeffisaGeek, Louis Gray, and myself brainstormed over several important questions to consider pertaining to the...
What’s Really Killing RSS Feeds? Hint: It’s NOT Twitter
There are a lot of opinions floating around the web about Twitter killing RSS feeds. I wholeheartedly disagree though Twitter definitely helps to keep me out of Feedly and Google Reader more often these days. I think it’s the apps themselves and the process of consuming RSS feeds that kills RSS more than other social...
Your Followings Will Affect Your Social Media Experience
When I think of Twitter, I think of consistent two-way communication. The keywords in the previous sentence were: consistent, two-way, communication. This type of interaction is what led me to my first understanding of what Twitter is. This is what a lot of mainstream users are still struggling with, usually because of who they’re following....
