Every article explaininghashtags is like a million pages long and P.S. people–using the word “metadata” to explain them is like, thank you for nothing.
Hashtag-Noun. Spawned from the ever powerful Twitter Machine, this symbol (#) has become a new way to add a thought, or some up the thought of, a sentence, giving it more clarity, and often, more wit. Most commonly found in tweets, FB status, and comments (in that order)
"Just eat an entire sleeve of oreos cookies in 8 mins #highlife"
"Wegmans didnt have MY kind of Organic Milk, so i had to by that silk shit instead #whitegirlproblems"
Dana: "#swag"
Me: "I can't write hashtags on my keyboard so I'm same from this cancer. By the way, swag means secretly we are gay."
Dana: "I said #SWAG"
Me: "Alright, good to know that you're gay too."
Dana: "Wait what"
1) (v) to attract, through social media, attention to political issues so important to you that you are ready to go on a crusade in order to defend said issues.
2) (n): something that, prior to the advent of the social mediaphenomenon, was known as a 'pound key') on your phone.
I am going to hashtag ''Mitt Romney for president'', and no i won't press the hashtag-pound key- on my phone, because it doesn't serve any purpose.