What Is The Differance Between The Names In Blue And The Names In Black?

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Answer #1: Posted by DaFroggit on September 13th, 2011 12:11 AM

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Names in blue are links to that persons profile, if you click on them they will take you there. Names in black are names that people have typed and facebook have not matched them to a profile so they are treated the same as any other text, if you click on them nothing happens

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