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Reality editing... Attention Facebook Users? - !dea - 07-18-2013 12:46 PM
What does # signify before any comment or in between comment on social networks
Like this:
#Reality editing
- Chance1880 - 07-18-2013 12:59 PM
It Signifies that you are using twitter and facebook at the same time.
- Vintage - 07-18-2013 01:11 PM
It's called a hashtag, if you are using it in the content of someone posting something on Facebook, the hashtag can be used to denote more feeling into a certain word, like saying something to the effect of : I just walked into the room and saw my parents kissing #akward. The hashtag was used to promote the creepy feeling that the person had when they witnessed the action. Rather than trying to spell out A k w a r d! in a funny way like with spaces or capitalization, the hashtag brings an intensity to it.
The hashtag also can be used to help promote a certain trend or discussion around a certain common topic so that people can locate the discussion, group or topic ie #tornado to find out the latest of what has happened with victims of a tornado incident. Here's more information from WIKI:
On Twitter, when a hashtag becomes extremely popular, it will appear in the "Trending Topics" area of a user's homepage. The trending topics can be organized by geographic area or by all of Twitter. Hashtags are neither registered nor controlled by any one user or group of users, and neither can they be "retired" from public usage, meaning that hashtags can be used in theoretical perpetuity depending upon the longevity of the word or set of characters in a written language. They also do not contain any set definitions, meaning that a single hashtag can be used for any number of purposes as espoused by those who make use of them.