Facebook Adds Clickable Hashtag Support #thefutureisbleak
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[quote] Get ready to see a lot more of the # symbol in your Facebook Newsfeed. Yes, the social network is about to start looking a bit more like that other social network you might use as it begins to roll out clickable hashtags.
Over the next few weeks all Facebook users will be able to include a hashtagged phrase, like #royalbaby or #puppies, in their posts and then watch it become clickable. When a hashtag is included in a post, clicking on it will pop out a feed that aggregates others posts that have been tagged with the same phrase. [/quote]
[url]http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-adds-clickable-hashtags-newsfeed-posts/story?id=19383505#.Ubq7BpzYbQM[/url]
If you click on a hashtag it brings up a search panel with people who have posted public things. Your hashtagged content (I think/hope anyway) that is shared with friends only can only been seen by your friends.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Lk4dDzk.jpg[/IMG]
Not really a bad thing at all, as it helps promote certain subjects and allows users to browse things more relevant to them.
#yolo
can't blame them, it's the latest #trend and they would be silly to pass it up
I tried it, but the hashtags didn't work.
#don'tcare #notevenalittlebit
#analglands
wow i can't believe facebook would do this omg like twitter totally did it FIRST
#copycats
I somehow don't think this will be the death of twitter. Nice try though FB.
Doesn't work here #dayone #alreadybroken #garry-is-not-alone
#Justgirlthings
Funny cause My news station reported on it a couple of days ago cause it already worked for them, now it works for my account. Guess they are slowly rolling it through?
I still didn't get the feature to show your mood on a status.
Guess that's payback for getting timeline ahead of the others using that dev status thingy.
[QUOTE=HolyCrapAWalrus;41030192]wow i can't believe facebook would do this omg like twitter totally did it FIRST
#copycats[/QUOTE]
there goes my faith in humanity....
[QUOTE=bubbagamer;41030235]I still didn't get the feature to show your mood on a status.
Guess that's payback for getting timeline ahead of the others using that dev status thingy.[/QUOTE]
It gives a bit more of a cleaner way to present your current activity.
Almost every status addition is just to make it more convenient. People you're with? Tag them. Where you are? Tag it. A show you're watching? Tag it.
This just allows a bit more of a convenient way. Instead of saying "Man, I'm really digging the @Iron Man 3 premiere at @Hollywood Theaters with my @brother," it could say
"Man, really digging the premiere." -With Brother at Hollywood Theaters watching Iron Man 3.
#youonlyYOLOonce
Didn't Youtube add a hashtag system that ultimately failed some time ago?
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;41030455]It gives a bit more of a cleaner way to present your current activity.
Almost every status addition is just to make it more convenient. People you're with? Tag them. Where you are? Tag it. A show you're watching? Tag it.
This just allows a bit more of a convenient way. Instead of saying "Man, I'm really digging the @Iron Man 3 premiere at @Hollywood Theaters with my @brother," it could say
"Man, really digging the premiere." -With Brother at Hollywood Theaters watching Iron Man 3.[/QUOTE]
By that I meant it still doesn't show up on my Facebook. :(
inb4 most popular hashtags: #Believe, #SyrianBelieberswantBELIEVEtour, #zaynmarryme, #swag, #yolo, #belieberhatersarefaggots
[QUOTE=bubbagamer;41030727]By that I meant it still doesn't show up on my Facebook. :([/QUOTE]
FB tend to roll out their updates based on location; as far as I know, all of New Zealand has it. Perhaps they're still shifting the new code onto whatever server is your primary
God forbid, they add things to Facebook for free!
I still get really annoyed by the term hashtag. Just call it a fucking pound sign.
[QUOTE=matt000024;41032042]I still get really annoyed by the term hashtag. Just call it a fucking pound sign.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign"]It's only called a pound sign within North America. Everywhere else it's called a hash, or the hash key.[/URL]
This reminds me, if i ever am put in a wheelchair i'd put a sticker on the back saying
#YOWO
Considering how determined some people were to use hashtags even before facebook supported them, I don't see the problem.
i'm one of those jerks who used hashtags already on facebook.
#just #because #yolo
Facepunch should be next #garrysmells
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;41030118]Not really a bad thing at all, as it helps promote certain subjects and allows users to browse things more relevant to them.[/QUOTE]
The only people I have ever seen using hashtags on Facebook are #fuckingidiots who I will almost certainly #unfriendandblock
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;41035404]The only people I have ever seen using hashtags on Facebook are #fuckingidiots who I will almost certainly #unfriendandblock[/QUOTE]
#irony
[QUOTE=Retyuoligkl;41030119]#yolo[/QUOTE]
I can't click that.
Garry, can you add support for this?
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