To not understand what someone means when they say 'hashtag'?

[ferriswheel]

Just that.

I don't understand, in any context.

I say “HASHTAG JUST SAYING” to annoy everyone I am with.

There is no other reason to say it out loud in public IMO

I just got a #TeamFiona Tervis tumbler! Fiona is our zoo's Nile Hippo calf. She was born 6 weeks premature, and items with her # give funds to the zoo's conservation efforts.

Violet

So if I was on twitter and wrote #coronationstreet it would link me to all other coronation street references? Is that what it means?

Instead of # you could say 'make all links to this visible?'

Is that it?

OP, so you mean use hashtags, rather than say "hashtag"?

Yes that's it OP.

It sort of means 'I know this is a tiny bit ridiculous', e.g. I work in the media and I might say to a friend that I'd been out to the Ivy and drunk too much wine and then gone to a premiere. Then I would think my god I sound like a twat, so I might say 'hashtag media' to acknowledge this and sort of defuse my twattishness.

No, you would have to click on #coronationstreet and then you would see everything else posted and tagged with #coronationstreet.

I don't get twitter, and instangram just seems to be billions of pictures of people with bunny ears pouting.

Twitter is basically just a forum with a character count, has far more then people pouting, I've never seen that on my tl, they're posts about everything under the sun.

Oh heck, I may be a square and very boring, but I have never signed up for any Social Media apart from this one and a couple of other fora. Thank God for that. I doubt I am missing anything much either.

Keep it simple. Keep your sanity.

@Growingboys has hit the nail on the thread there. I think people only say it out loud if they’re taking the piss out of themselves.

OP, are you asking about people who type # or people who say “hashtag”?

Two different answers!

The people who say hashtag are the same people who used to say confused.com. As a pp said, they are the same type of people who used airquotes back in the olden days.
I think they use superfluous words associated with modern technology to seem more up to date. I've never known actual techie people use 'hashtag' in conversation.

I guess I mean both.

I would never say the word 'hashtag' out loud in the middle of a sentence no more so than I would say the word lol when I'm laughing (which I have witnessed unfortunately) but I do and would use it in the context of social media because it is a useful search function and form of broadcast communication.

They are trying too hard.

Yes Ferriswheel, privided the poster had used exactly the same hashtag.

It's the 21st Centuary version of doing bunny finger quote marks around something you say, that used to be ridiculed as pretentious in the 1990s.

^Provided^

They are keywords or topics. Started on twitter and it’s also used in Instagram and Facebook. I’m old enough to remember its use on twitter. #oldandjaded #10yearsofhashtags #mumsnet

See that’s how you use hashtags. And you say hashtag oldandjaded.

if I was on twitter and wrote #coronationstreet it would link me to all other coronation street references? Is that what it means?

Yes. Also there are trending hashtags. When you login you should see it.

Like this

#dontunderstand
#oldpeopleproblems
#Shoukdjustbuythepaper

To cut a long story short a hashtag is something used to categorise posts on social media. It started on Twitter and moved to Instagram. Basically it's meant to group all like posts together, so if I wanted to look up vegan meals I'd search #veganmeals and a loaf of posts relating to vegan meals would pop up (along with a few obligatory porn posts that have had that hashtag put on them because veganism is trendy right now and the porn sites will get more hits).
It later became a trend to describe your post with a series of hashtags following on from each other, for example, if I post about a vegan recipe I might post #yum #veganfood #gormet #imanadult #haha #no. This then simplified into just one or two tags to describe a complex post.
With the invention of tag yourself meme it progressed into speech and thus we end up here.

People actually SAY hashtag the word?
With their voice? In seriousness?

Good lord, what a bunch of dweebs!

Conyo yes I've heard people say it, but normally ironically.