A recent leak has revealed that in a hidden place in the Facebook code, there is a new way to tag friends in comments and posts. Since this function was integrated into the social network there was no change to the already characteristic way of mentioning a contact, but now in a surprising move, Facebook seems to have thought that there would be better ways to tag users in its social network.
It could soon change the way you can tag friends on Facebook
The iconic @ symbol that precedes the usernames of our contacts and that allows them to know that we have tagged them in a publication in which they have accompanied us for many years. However it seems that Facebook will soon retire this method and it will integrate an easier and more visible way to tag friends, or so it seems.
This news would come button shaped next to the icons that appear when making a comment, integrate an emoticon, image, or sticker, and is characterized by a linear human figure with a + symbol. By clicking on it, a list will be displayed with the names of our contacts that we regularly label.
Once the contact we want to tag has been chosen, the tag will be placed right where we have the cursor at that moment, or at the end of the publication.
The button will be calledMention a friend” and it could certainly work for tagging contacts who are currently slipping their name or changing their username on a regular basis, despite the @ feature being much more direct and hassle-free.
The big changes in Facebook to achieve a better user experience
Until now, the function to tag friends on Facebook is hidden: the social network of does not want this secret button to be known to tag friends on your platform.
What is true and known to all is that innovations and new functions and with a better user experience to try to keep their users as long as possible in their social network.
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