So What Do Hashtags Actually Do ??!!
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It is a way of self assigning key words to a post. E.g. if you were making a post about watching Wimbledon tennis you might put a # on the word Wimbledon where it is mentioned, or if not specifically mentioned you might put #wimbledon on the end. Then people can look for posts with #wimbledon rather than just the word and not have thier tennis interest interrupted by mentions of various other things like wombles, tube stations, house prices and council tax.
It's what they said.
Your confusion is because the world is full of morons and you're friends with some of them. What you're seeing is pointless use of the tags. If no one is ever going to use the tag as a search term then it's pointless. Eg you might tag your photo of Buttermere #buttermere and I'll find it when I search Instagram for photos of #buttermere. But if you use #lovelivinglifeinthelakes2018 instead you're a moron.
I *think* what happened was that twitter invented the #tag, and for a period of about 2 months back in 20xx you could use hash tags ironically on Facebook because they didn't work on Facebook and it was funny to make it look like you didn't know what you were doing. The morons didn't understand it was ironic and then Facebook etc jumped on the tag bandwagon and now we are where we are.
Your confusion is because the world is full of morons and you're friends with some of them. What you're seeing is pointless use of the tags. If no one is ever going to use the tag as a search term then it's pointless. Eg you might tag your photo of Buttermere #buttermere and I'll find it when I search Instagram for photos of #buttermere. But if you use #lovelivinglifeinthelakes2018 instead you're a moron.
I *think* what happened was that twitter invented the #tag, and for a period of about 2 months back in 20xx you could use hash tags ironically on Facebook because they didn't work on Facebook and it was funny to make it look like you didn't know what you were doing. The morons didn't understand it was ironic and then Facebook etc jumped on the tag bandwagon and now we are where we are.
A hashtag is simply a keyword, it's a type of metadata used to classify similar content.
It's useful for searching similar things based on generic terms, if I want to look at photos of Greece in Instagram I can use #Greece, absolutely useless when people use #whatwedidonholidayingreece as the above poster pointed out.
It's kind of crept over into content management systems too, though never really seen employees actually bother with it.
It's useful for searching similar things based on generic terms, if I want to look at photos of Greece in Instagram I can use #Greece, absolutely useless when people use #whatwedidonholidayingreece as the above poster pointed out.
It's kind of crept over into content management systems too, though never really seen employees actually bother with it.
SimonTheSailor said:
So in your example you don't search for Greece, you search for #Greece ?
Yes, the point being you only see content that people have chosen to associated with #greece, rather than every single mention of Greece. It's more useful for events than places though - #greece isn't a great example
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