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Tag Friends in Facebook Posts on Microsoft Lumia 535

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how to tag a friend in a post in Facebook on a Microsoft Lumia 535.

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To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the Power button located on the right-hand side of the phone
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Once the phone has been activated, we will see the lock screen
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To unlock the phone, swipe the screen upwards
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Once the phone has been unlocked, we will see the home screen, and it is here that we need to find the Facebook tile
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It has a blue tile background, and in the bottom right-hand corner of the tile, there is the Facebook icon, which is a white square with a blue "f" on top
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Press down on the Facebook tile, and it will allow us to enter the application
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In this tutorial, we want to demonstrate how to tag a friend in a post. To do that, we must first create a new post.

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We can create a post by using the first icon in a circle at the bottom of the screen
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Inside the first blue circle is blue square with a pencil on top.
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Press down on this icon, and it will allow us to create a new post
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We'll just add an emoticon to create a quick post
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Now, to tag someone in this post, we need the third icon at the bottom of the screen in the white bar
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It is a blue circle with a blue outline of a person's head and shoulders. There's also a small shopping price tag.
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If we press down on that icon, it's going to open a list of contacts, where it will allow us to tag someone
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At the top of the screen, we can type in the name of the person we want to tag
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Alternatively, we can find the person on a list that should be displayed on the screen
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In this example, it only shows one contact name.
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Press down on the box next to the name to add a check mark in the box
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We could tag multiple people by pressing on multiple boxes if desired. Since we only have one contact in this example, we will just tag the one.
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Once satisfied with our choices of people to tag, we can press down on the blue check inside of a blue circle
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Now, it says "with Tom Thumb"
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We've tagged our friend.
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Therefore, we can send this post by pressing down on the first icon at the bottom of the screen
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This is the send icon, and it is a speech box inside of a blue circle.
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When we press down on that, it will return us to the "News Feed", where it will say "Posting update" at the top
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One that is complete, we'll be able to see our new post
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It says "Tommy How with Tom Thumb". We have successfully tagged our friend in a post and published it on Facebook.
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This concludes our tutorial on how to tag a friend in a post in Facebook on a Microsoft Lumia 535
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If you have any questions, comments or queries regarding this video or about the process that you have witnessed in this video, then please leave then in the comment section below, and we shall answer them for you.
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