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why do people put # in front of something in their facebook statuses? - AllTimeLow - 11-09-2012 08:55 PM




- Mr. Dino - 11-09-2012 09:03 PM

Yes


- petitefan257 - 11-09-2012 09:03 PM

Beats me.


- *Kyle* - 11-09-2012 09:03 PM

##I don't know. It sounds stupid and pointless to me


- Lord Voldemort © - 11-09-2012 09:03 PM

They're confusing it for twitter...


- Dani - 11-09-2012 09:03 PM

#because they want to.


- angelina - 11-09-2012 09:03 PM

When you do that on twitter it's called a hashtag, #hashtag Smile


- Chali - 11-09-2012 09:03 PM

If a person is updating their status on facebook at the same time as twitter, then the hashtags are for categorizing. This is very common for anyone who does multiple status updates at the same time.