re: What do hashtags mean or do?

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If you wanted to pretend to be above social media, you should have called them "pound signs"

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#poundsand

Most of the people who cover high school sports in Northeast Louisiana use the hashtag #NELAPreps when they are giving scoring updates on Twitter. If you want to know a score for a game in the area, you can type that into the search function, and get them. Same for #NOLAPreps, #LSUFootball or #Saints.

When there's a natural disaster, a school shooting, or anything you want to find out about quickly, you can type in the city where it happened, and like Google, it will fill in hashtags for the event.

You can find people that cover things you want to follow, by doing this too.

Twitter can be a good way to get specialized information, but like other social media platforms, it's not a great place to get all of your information.

Here's a Twitter search for #NELAPreps

Not much there right now. On a Friday night, in September, there will be a bunch of tweets with scoring updates.

Here's one for #CajunNavy, a popular subject here.

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Is there a purpose for it being on so many FB status updates?

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People are ignorant.

Fun fact: The guy that "invented" the hashtag for Twitter got $0 for the idea. The entire thing stems from one simple thing, Twitter had no idea how to categorize tweets. The hashtag allowed them to do this at no cost.

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Is there a purpose for it being on so many FB status updates?

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People are ignorant.

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Yes, people like you.

Hashtags work on Facebook too, but they mostly show up because while posting on Instagram (which heavily uses hashtags like Twitter) there's an option to post it on Facebook too. The caption will be copied exactly so the hashtags follow.

They allow Tyga Woods to easily put together threads of hot trashy girls.

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If you wanted to pretend to be above social media, you should have called them "pound signs"

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They come from music, long before "pound signs." They are sharp signs to indicate that the note on that line or space is raised a half-tone, or half-step. Young people.

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They come from music, long before "pound signs." They are sharp signs to indicate that the note on that line or space is raised a half-tone, or half-step. Young people.

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Are you trying to act like sheet music is a thing of the past?

means its something i dont need to read.

Mean? Nothing
Do? Nothing

They do serve as links between posts on social media platforms though