Information on how to use bbcode on social web sites
Social websites, portals, and and weblogs. Many of them accept HTML, the de jure standard language of web pages as their markup language.
However, not everyone knows HTML, and not everyone wants to learn HTML! Also, HTML can be a little verbose. 
So many portals and some blogging software accepts user postings in bbcode markdown format instead of HTML or XHTML. 
The first 2 links below will take you to bbcode documentation for a popular television portal, and a popular music portal.
Here it is for TV.com television portal.
http://www.tv.com/support-&-user-submission-questions/unofficial-community-faq/topic/15904-50272/msgs.html
This list of bbcodes is for Last.fm - the social music portal web site. A lot of the same codes work on there too. Of course the artist, track, album codes - those only work on Last.fm. Since they are music stuff.
http://www.last.fm/forum/markup.php
Here is some generic bbcode documentation. I cannot promise it will all work on the site you are using. But a lot of it will, if the site uses bbcode.
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/faq.php?mode=bbcode
For quick reference, here are codes you will probably use the most often. At least I do:
Yipes, [i]Italitics[/i] - bbcode i puts the phrase inside it in italics
My, aren’t we [b]bold[/b] - bbcode b puts the phrase inside it in boldface
That [u]underscores[/u] my point - bbcode u underlines the phrase inside it
In general, bbcodes consist of a letter, word, or abbreviation between an open and closed bracket. There is one of these at the start of the phrase/word you want to mark up, and there is one of these at the end of the phrase/word you want to mark up. The one at the end, has a / (a slashmark, that is) right between the open/left bracket and the bbcode letters.
Hope this helps you have more fun posting. It is a lot more fun when you can style and decorate your text the way you want.
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