#unnecessary

I got hit with a tweet this morning full of hashtags. the tweet read "#hiTyler #haveagoodday #doyoulikeitwhenihashtageverything #doesitmakeyouhappy #hashtag #hashtag #unnecessary". I got this tweet because last night i was explaining to my friends how much i disliked the fact that hashtags were everywhere i looked now, and also how angry i get when i see a tweet thats just full of them. Don't get me wrong, i think hashtags are a great idea. They make life 100 times easier when searching for a specific conversation topic or group on Twitter. However, when you see someone hashtagging a completely unnecessary word like #oh or #hiTyler it's just abusing the privilege. The article, Twitter's Secret Handshake, makes some very valid points about the use of hashtags. They show that people are hip to the twitter world or they provide a useful shorthand. I like when Matt Graves says his mom would say something like, "I'm number winning." hashtags do show that you are twitter savvy. When though does it become too much? You can't watch a football game without seeing a hashtag in the corner of the screen for people to discuss the game. If you turn on a television show you see a hashtag to send in comments about the characters. Even people like Daniel Tosh repeatedly say things like, "follow me on twitter so we can live chat during the show." Personally I think this is just too much. I even saw someone the other day with their twitter name on the front of a t-shirt and #followme on the back. #unnecessary