If earlier Instagram was a simple photo-sharing application for iPhone owners, now it has become a valuable social network with a wide audience reach. With it, people can communicate, share photos and information, tag each other in comments.
Why tag people in comments?
Tagging people in comments on posts or videos on Instagram is a great tool to grab attention. You can put marks in comments in order to:
- Attract the attention of a specific person;
- Ask a question to a specific person or organization;
- Reply to a mention in a post or a tag in a photo.
Recently, this tool has been actively used by commercial organizations involved in the promotion of goods in social networks.
How to tag a person in the comments on Instagram on a smartphone?
The majority of registered Instagram users are used by smartphone applications based on operating systems such as iOS and Android. To mark a person in the comments to a post, you need to perform a number of simple steps:
- Go to the comments by clicking on the special round dialogue icon;
- In the field that opens, enter the @ sign, and then the nickname of the person (for example, @anastasiiasheverduk), which should be noted in the comment. If this person is in the subscriptions, then he can be selected in the list that opens after entering the @ sign.
- After entering the nickname and the text of the comment, click on "send".
As soon as a comment mentioning a person is sent, he will receive a notification about this.
In addition to the @ sign, you can use a hashtag. This will allow not only to reach a large audience, but in the future, using the hashtag, it will be easy to find this publication. Example: # go to sea with @ olga95.
How to tag a person to comments on Instagram on a computer or laptop?
Although Instagram is considered an application for smartphones based on iOS and Android, users can log into their account through a regular browser.
Of course, compared to a mobile application, when using Instagram on a computer, the functionality will be limited, but the user can view and publish posts and stories, comment on them and mark them.
In order to mark a person in comments on Instagram from a computer or laptop, you must:
1. Select the required post or photo;
2. Click on the comment field;
3. Enter the @ sign and the nickname of the user you want to mention and click on "send".
Typically, the browser stores all the marked users in memory, and the next time you need to mark this person again, typing the @ sign will open a list of all the previously mentioned people.
Some companies that use Instagram for promotion can be quite annoying, constantly mentioning the same users in the comments. At the same time, after each such mention, these users receive notifications. If a person does not want notifications about mentioning from the annoying account, then he can add it to the black list.
