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

[ferriswheel]

Just that.

I don't understand, in any context.

Bloody useful on Twitter OP when there's a major news event and you want to see what's happening, as it happens, live feed. #thenameoftheevent and see the continually refreshing list appear, often eye witness.

On Twitter it is used like this:
Someone wanting to post about Strictly Come Dancing might say ‘I can’t believe they got voted off. #strictly’
Then anyone on Twitter can search the hashtag #strictly and see what everyone is saying. It’s kind of like reading a thread on here about it. Rather than looking for a thread with a title like Strictly, you just look for the hashtag. You see it sometimes at the start of tv programs. So #c4locations is the one for Location Location Location.
It’s worth knowing that you can’t have a space in a hashtag.
Anyone can make a hashtag, you just add it into your post.
So for example I might post a picture of a glass of wine on a Friday night saying ‘yay, Friday night at last. #wine #thankfuckitsfriday.

In speech it can be used rather like someone putting a line through stuff on MN.
For example someone might say ‘See you’ve got a small glass of wine hashtag pisshead hashtag open another bottle.’ But only if they were a dick.

The above is a great explanation! Some people take it to extremes though, eg a fb friend (a grown woman!) recently had a pic of herself tagged with #blueeyes #boyfriend #laceblouse #nightout #datenight etc, so cringe.

I get the idea where you put #strictly or whatever so people can search for everything about that show, but I don’t get it when people put something which clearly won’t be searched on, like #datenightwithfred
What’s the point? Why wouldn’t you just put the picture & say ‘On a date night with Fred’, what’s the point of the hashtag?

Sometimes it’s to be ‘funny’.
So someone might post a huge pile of work and say #lovemyjob.
Or cleaning up a poonami and say #glamorouslifestyle.

Never knew what it meant either - but got me thinking - how long will it be before some child gets called Hashtag?

THIS -

This thread has been very helpful. #thankyou