LaTeX Facebook and Latex: A Petition for Improved Communication with Friends

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The discussion centers on the frustration of not being able to use LaTeX for mathematical expressions on Facebook, highlighting the potential for a collaborative petition from popular science and math forums to encourage Facebook to implement this feature. The idea is to gather significant support, potentially reaching thousands of signatures, to push for LaTeX integration. While some users express a desire for this functionality, others indicate they do not miss it and prefer discussing math in forums instead. The existing petition on Change.org is mentioned, but there is skepticism about its ability to gain traction without broader forum support.
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The frustration of not being able to talk to my friends on facebook with the help of latex to describe what I'm trying to get across if very annoying. Sinse PF has a huge member base and is extremely popular, would it be an idea if PF and a few other major science / math forums got together to make a petition for Facebook to implement latex?

With the help of some others we could get thousands of signatures. I'd really like to see Latex on Facebook.

Here is an already existing petition but it will never achieve the required amount with the support of the forums

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...a-way-of-writing-in-latex-on-www-facebook-com
 
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I talk about math on facebook a lot, but I don't really miss LaTeX. I probably wouldn't use it if it were available.
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Or you could invite your friends to talk in PF :)

I do invite my friends here but most of them are not so into forums like I am.
 
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