There are shortcuts for everything these days even the @ tag editing we just wrote about Friday.

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The number of places where you can get tagged on Facebook continues to grow, but you can give yourself the right to approve all tags before they can appear on the site — and the ability to do this has gotten more refined than ever.

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Now you can embellish Facebook comments with linked tags to people who aren’t your friends.
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In addition to the standard user complaints following any change to the site, we’ve seen loads of confusion over Facebook’s latest changes to places and deals. Allow us to set the record straight: Neither is completely disappearing!
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Facebook is phasing out the deals intended to compete directly with Groupon, meaning offers that don’t require a check-in or location tag.
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Facebook has posted a “coming soon” announcement about the forthcoming changes to the site.
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Facebook is unveiling a raft of improvements for sharing posts, photos, tags and places with exactly the people a user wants to see the content.
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Facebook users finally have the ability to remove themselves from their friends’ photo tagging suggestions, by customizing privacy settings.
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Threaded discussions on Facebook may lengthen now that the site has expanded its recognition of the @ sign as a tag that prompts link creation.

Just about anywhere on Facebook where you can input content, typing in the @ sign followed by another character prompts a drop-down menu suggesting people, pages and events you’re already connected to.

Click on your choice and the @ you started to type becomes a link to the person, page or event. That also prompts the site to send a notification to the linked party about the mention. Presumably the notified party — an admin or profile owner — might feel inspired to join or revisit the conversation.

Bloggers Josh Constine notes that Facebook previously offered these capabilities only in status updates or wall posts — a feature that first became available in September 2009. Now this has expanded to comments.

Have you noticed the expanded recognition of @ on Facebook, and if so, do you find yourself joining more conversations because of it?

Facebook received a patent on search results based on photo tags this week.
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