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What is the purpose of a hashtag?

The purpose of a hashtag is to organize key words in order for people to easily find the topics that they are interested in. In other words, a hashtag is primarily used for people to highlight specific key words in order for others, who are interested in that particular topic to search for with ease. This helps to eliminate the traffic of unrelated posts, and to help connect people with similar interests, more effectively. For example, my friend who loves anything Harry Potter can use #HarryPotter to quickly search for any news, art, trivia, DIY ideas, etc. regarding Harry Potter. Without having to scroll through any unrelated posts. 


    What other information do you need to consider to better understand hashtags?

    Information that you should know when understanding hashtags is to know what is and isn't necessarily a "hashtag." In other words, understanding and choosing words that qualify as hashtags is important. Not only is it important to help get your ideas across, but it also helps to cut down any unnecessary hashtags that may annoy your audience. For example, #if #you #use #hashtags #after #every #word  #like #this, your audience would, understandably be pretty annoyed reading that and it would also be pretty annoying for you to type that out. So instead, focus on the key ideas of your post. If you're talking about the video game Animal Crossing, then type out #AnimalCrossing or #Nimtendo for the name of the game company. 



    The purpose of the assignment is to learn and understand why hashtags are commonly used in social media.


    The key question at the heart of the assignment is how can learning about hashtags help you to improve your social media presence?

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