How To Post A Short (name) Link In Facebook
Yes we can! (thanks to a certain famous campaign for the phrase). Ever wonder how, in Facebook, to link to another person or page without copy/pasting a long link? Here's how:
- First, you must be a friend or a fan of the person/page.
- Then all you do is start typing their name. Yep... it's a new feature of Facebook. In the "good ol' days" you used to preface their name with the "@" symbol. Now... just start typing their name. Facebook will pop-up their name for you. Then select the name.
There are a couple of weird things to be aware of:
- If you are doing this in a "post" it works fine. But if you are doing it in a "comment" underneath a post, it doesn't always work correctly. I've noticed that "pages" won't be found by just typing. You still have to type the old "@" symbol to get the popup.
- In a "comment" (not a "post"), if you are typing a person's name and are looking for the popup, you must capitalize the first letter of their name. Otherwise, you gotta use the "@" sign first.
- On "names" (not "pages"), after you select the name from the drop down menu, you can now backspace out part of their name (like the last name) in order to shorten it. Cool.
Have fun kids... what a great playground is this world called Facebook!
Posted May 12, 2011 Viewed
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Your Facebook Identity: You Have Two Of Them Now
A recent change on Facebook now allows you to interact on Facebook as two different identities. You still must use ONE LOGIN to enter the Facebook Universe (having two logins is a violation of FB TOS). However, once you login, you may choose a "Profile" or a "Page" identity to relate to others in Facebook. That choice can be made in the Account Settings found in the upper right hand corner of anyplace that you might be in Facebook at the time (Account~Use Facebook as XYZ).
But I often switch my identity while I'm on my page. There are many things that happen when you switch to using Facebook as a page... most of them a bit frustrating and feature-limiting. And I have found that doing this switch numerous times through the day creates a bit of a split personality problem for me and others. Maybe it will end up getting its own ICD9 Code. I dunno. But I do know that one consequence of switching to "Use Facebook as my page" is shown below... you lose the ability to Suggest (your page) to Friends.
Posted April 21, 2011 Viewed
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