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For me the benefit is obvious - Since I never call my parents by their names and only address them as dad\mom it's much more natural for me to @dad when I'd lik
by aharonovich 12y ago
For me the benefit is obvious - Since I never call my parents by their names and only address them as dad\mom it's much more natural for me to @dad when I'd like him to see something. In fact, that's how I've stumbled upon this feature. Using FB when very tired and just accidently wrote @dad instead of @<his name>.
Indeed it would be awesome if Facebook crowdsourced their road map, that's a great idea.
- walterbell 12y agoIf FB wants to support privacy, they would ensure those abbreviations are not reflected in public conversations. The best solution for users would client-side app/context text expansion that is independent of the backend web service. iOS has global text expansion (keyboard shortcuts) and Android has 3rd-party keyboards.
- aharonovich 12y agoThey are not reflected. Let's say someone dad's name is David, when he tags @dad the tag would read 'david'.