What does the Term "Hash Tag mean?
Sorry but I'm an old dog now and I am having a real problem with some new words etc.
Like what does the term "Hash Tag" this and that mean? I know what the hash tag button on my phone does, -sometimes messages ask me to press it etc, but noways people keep using it in conversation & I don't know what they mean.
Then Sarah Cox (Grrr) keeps on about a "Half Wower" - whats that all about? And that bloke in the afternoon he's always on about Serious Jokin! Is that about Jokes? but they dont seem funny, but if thats not it, what is it?
A reasonable command of the English language used to be a matter of some pride to me, but I think I'm losing the plot now. I just don't understand some of it, and the above are just some!
TF
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A Hash Tag is used in Twitter land
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As you say TF, the language is morphing faster than we can keep up with it.
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The hashtag enables the message (Tweet/Instagram image etc.) to be searched by category, for example, if you wanted to enable your post to be found by those interested in taking their dogs away in their caravan you would end your message with #caravan #dogs
then it would pop up in a list of posts when those words are entered into the search box.0 -
"hash" is a term used in the northern part of the American continent. The correct word in the English language is Octothorpe. [and before anyone ponders the origin - No, it is not a village in Yorkshire!]
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bandgirl, thanks but that really didn't help me because I think that I'd worked most of that out. Its the use of the term in normal speak ( Conversation) that I don't understand. People use it now almost as a punctuation mark. They will say " Oh she's one of the hashtag ..... people", or something like that. I don't think they were necessarily being rude, just using the term in a descriptive way? or....?
As I say its all beyond me.
TF
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bandgirl, thanks but that really didn't help me because I think that I'd worked most of that out. Its the use of the term in normal speak ( Conversation) that I don't understand. People use it now almost as a punctuation mark. They will say " Oh
she's one of the hashtag ..... people", or something like that. I don't think they were necessarily being rude, just using the term in a descriptive way? or....?As I say its all beyond me.
TF
Write your comments here...But just think, the younger generation don't know what the word 'conversation' means so we are one up on them. Unless they can communicate by social media they are lost, not that I think 'social media' is at all 'social'
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Hi TigerFish,
Bandgirl’s description is right, but if you’re referring to why people use “hashtag” in everyday conversation, I’d say it’s used almost ironically. After Twitter reached it's height of popularity, lots of other social platforms were using the hashtag as well (Facebook and Instagram as examples). Because hashtags are now seen and used everywhere, it’s almost like a running joke to use it in spoken language. Much like when text messaging became popular, and people would shorten their words in text, but then those habits would migrate over to spoken word.
I hope that makes sense! #understood?
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Thanks Rochelle, but I think that I'm just going to have to accept that this is a new form of language that I don't understand. It lies in the same sort of strange code as the "Half Wower" and the "Serious Jockin".
Best left alone. I'll stick to plain English!
Thanks again
TF
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I only use hashtags daily on Twitter and don't have an account on Instagram
No idea what a "half wower" is
- (but then I only listen to Arrow Rock Radio from the Netherlands)I guess that makes me old fashioned!!
#behindthetimes
Cheers
Bugs
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We used to manage very well without hashtags and IT.
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We used to manage very well without hashtags and IT.
Using hashtags is not compulsory and IT can be avoided. My MIL manages very well without both.
Language evolves all the time. When hashtag becomes 'old hat' there will be something else. The world won't stop turning
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I think I might use #fredflintstone for my next avatar name!
That was irony by the way, not goldy or bronzey!
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We used to manage very well without hashtags and IT.
We used to manage very well without caravans full of mod cons but it's much more pleasant having them.
Embrace evolution and move forward or reject it and stagnate. I'll take the former option, thanks.
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We used to manage very well without hashtags and IT.
We used to manage very well without caravans full of mod cons but it's much more pleasant having them.
Embrace evolution and move forward or reject it and stagnate. I'll take the former option, thanks.
Except "Facebook"
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Because hashtags are now seen and used everywhere, . . .
Really? Everywhere? Not where I read, or go.
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I too love keeping up with technology, but it has evolved so fast that our (not mine I hasten to add
) social manners have not kept up with it.
That's a very good point, Dave. Examples can be seen on a daily basis.
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or even ###
(Go look that up now!)
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bandgirl, thanks but that really didn't help me because I think that I'd worked most of that out. Its the use of the term in normal speak ( Conversation) that I don't understand. People use it now almost as a punctuation mark. They will say " Oh
she's one of the hashtag ..... people", or something like that. I don't think they were necessarily being rude, just using the term in a descriptive way? or....?As I say its all beyond me.
TF
I needed Rochelle's description about the use in conversation too. I suppose it's a bit like the way people do quotation marks with their fingers.
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) social manners have not kept up with it.