Are you sure this happens when typing replies? I ask because I think FB disabled the ability when starting new posts, but it still works for me when I'm replying to an existing post.

What Casey said.

How do you tag them? I'm learning too.

I'm not used to tagging anyone either. In my google search it says to type an @ then begin typing their name and you will get options that come up...this is NOT happening at all. It used to just bring up names as I began to type in someone's name but now it doesn't do anything and the text just remains black and isn't a clickable blue text. What is going on here?

This is what comes up when I go to post on facebook. You can see in the bottom right the option to tag someone.

No, I'm talking about just when I post a reply in someone elses comments or status etc. It used to be that all I had to do is begin to type a friend's name and several would pop up allowing me to choose who I wanted to "mention". This does not happen anymore.

Edit to add: The "what's on your mind?" thing is working just like the picture posted. This is not my issue though.

Is this on your phone with a recent app update? Since mine updated i cant see a lot of the stickers people post. Ive been thinking these are new iphone stickers and cant see them on non- iphones. I should check that theory out on the computer. My friends names still pop up within the first couple of letters so easy to tag them.

I tried using Internet Explorer and that didn't help. I tried turning off the add blocker, still no joy. I've searched on google and other people are having the same issue but I don't see anything that answers how to fix it. I had my husband go to his FB account and tried it and it's not working for him either. If I start a "thread" I can choose tag friend and that works and friends names pop up as they should.

Moonie, I am using my PC at home.

Facebook is finicky, too many glitches. Mine is extremely slow too

I had not noticed that until just now. I get business type 'suggestions' now. Must be some new Facebook nonsense.

And then it worked after I came back here to report, goofy behavior.

Arkansasgirl, I know what your problem is, I was just giving you an alternate way to tag someone because your usual way is not working. If you read my first response, I agreed with you that it used to work and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

It isn't working even sometimes for me. I hardly ever initiate a conversation or topic on FB so I don't really have much use to "tag" anyone like that. Normally, I'm just joining in a conversation or commenting about what someone shared etc. Like today, my sister posted this wonderful recipe that was something I'd been looking for FOREVER. I wanted to post someone's name so they would see it. Other people are mentioning my name and I'm getting notifications all the time.

The @ sign sounds more like Twitter than Facebook.

Something else I've noticed on FB, starting today, is if I have notifications and click on that symbol, it shows me notifications I've already seen. I have to click on it again to see the new ones. I hope this isn't one of FB's many "improvements."

It quit working on my phone at least a year ago. (Auto-fill when you start typing a name ...) Still works on my PC, so far.

Are we concluding that it's a Facebook glitch? Why does it work for some and not for others?

Susan, the same thing is happening to me re notifications. Weird.

I truly believe that it is a Facebook glitch, there seem to be some scripts running on the page slowing everything down. Are you giving it some extra time before trying to type in a name? I am almost positive that the time that I took yesterday to come back to this topic to say that I noticed the same thing, allowed it to finally work. When I returned to my Facebook comment, I was able to see my friend's name as I typed it.

PK, I tried leaving it up after I read your post but it didn't help any. I think my page was up for about 30 minutes, tried to type a name but nothing happened. I even left the name up thinking it's lagging but that didn't help either.

@ before the name, works to tag a person on facebook. Just make sure there is no space between @ and the person's name. If you want it to be a more personal response, you can un-tag the last name by hitting the backspace key on the keyboard. So it becomes 'John' that is tagged instead of 'John Doe', if you know what I mean.

Using the "@" doesn't work either.