A little bit of history on the #hashtag. The hash sign (#) has been sitting on the bottom right corner of your telephone keypad since the 1960’s. The hash key was a useless little button really, except when you called up businesses who told you to ‘Press the hash key to continue’ in a mechanic voice.
The hashtag came with the creation of Twitter in 2006, as the founders thought it’d be a great way for people to self-categorise stuff on the internet. Then hashtags bled over into Instagram and Facebook.
We’re so used to tweeting and typing a Facebook post that now our speech has changed to match it. Hashtags aren’t just used for categorising something anymore, (as it was intended) but now as a side comment or sarcasm. #lame #firstworldproblems
As if that wasn’t bad enough, now people are using it in speech?!? Really, people? At least online you could click on the hashtag to see what other people are saying about the same topic, but in real life it serves absolutely no purpose. And to make it worse it’s accompanied by hashtag hands.
I think this video pretty much speaks for itself:
#corkthedigitalk (and here I’m using the hashtag for mere categorisation purposes).
But also, Cork the Digitalk people.
-LH
CORK THE DIGITALK 
October 17, 2015 at 2:35 PM
#realworldproblems HAHA. But for real though, it is getting annoying. You can literally instantly tell the “hip” try hard of the group if they do this.
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October 17, 2015 at 2:56 PM
HAHA yeah #firstworldproblems, ah Twitter and the internet… If I had friends who said hashtags aloud I’d probably have to rethink our friendship. 😛 Just kidding, but I’d definitely call them out on it!
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October 16, 2015 at 6:50 PM
As a music teacher, I cringe everytime the kids call the ‘sharp sign’ a hashtag! Agree with you that tweets have made its way into our speech… starting from the young ones!
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October 17, 2015 at 11:46 AM
That is hilarious! Luckily you’re there to teach them 🙂 It was a sharp sign way before the hashtag.
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October 13, 2015 at 8:11 PM
When someone says “hashtag blah blah” ugh…, can you not.
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October 16, 2015 at 10:25 AM
I totally agree! Seriously, hashtags should just stay on Twitter and social media.
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October 13, 2015 at 6:42 PM
Sometimes I think that people go overboard with hashtags. Their tags take up most of the body of the message.
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October 16, 2015 at 10:24 AM
Yeah and then it becomes hard to read because the sentence is broken up with all these hashtag signs and different colours.
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