Instagram also uses hashtags. The most famous hashtags that I see would be #selfie, #foodporn (when did food actually become porn?!?), #igersmanila, #throwbackthursday, and #insta[insert word here]. There's this famous Twitter couple who used hashtags during their wedding so they can see all the photos that people are taking during the wedding. It's like an instant, not to mention FREE coverage of the wedding. When my friends Jump and Lora got married, I suggested they also use a hashtag. They decided to use the hashtag #jumpnlora. We used a desktop app which of course I already forgot the name, and projected on the white screen, all the Instagram photos that were hash tagged #jumpnlora. Lora was thrilled to see all the photos that her guests took. She just kept thanking me for it. Haha! 

#jumpnlora's guests were very happy to join in the hashtagging.

Hashtagging on Instagram wasn't very popular yet during our wedding, but some of our friends used the hashtag #joyjeffwedding for our photos. If everyone would know how to use hashtags, social media would be a better place. 

Those first three photos were not related to our wedding. And Ryan Bang was not our guest! Haha!

Last June, Facebook finally picked and started using hashtags. Hashtags are not new on Facebook. Twitter people kept using them even if they don't really have use on Facebook. The bandwagon became bigger and even those who don't know how to use hashtags started using hashtags. And then there are the haters who would rant about why people are using hashtags on Facebook. It became a pet peeve. So when hashtags became officially accepted on Facebook, I felt the need to write this:

Sorry nalang sa may mga pet peeve. Haha!

Then again, some people still don't know how to use hashtags properly. This is my pet peeve. So how do we really use hashtags correctly? Here's a list that I thought of and not really the standard. 

1. Don't use 10 or 20 hashtags in one post. Although this is widely accepted on Instagram, it still makes me cringe. What people do now is they just put all their hashtags in the comments area. At least it's not going to show up if it gets cross posted on Facebook. 

This is what I am talking about. Expect all these hashtags to appear on your Facebook timeline. Haha!

And this is what I like.

2. #all #words #are #hashtagged. If you liked reading that, then go ahead and do that all the time. But expect people to unfriend you.

3. No punctuations in between. Some people need to understand that if you put a punctuation in between words with a hashtag, the hashtag gets cut. For example #Jeff&Joy will only be read as #Jeff.

4. Proper spacing. Just like a normal sentence, hashtagging needs proper spacing. I see some people writing hashtags like this: #i#want#a#banana#now. Dude, are you kidding me? Besides the fact that you just hashtagged all the words in your sentence, you made it stupider by putting them together.

5. Hashtags are in the beginning of the words. Like this: #hashtag. And not like this: hashtag# 

6. It is okay to put together words. #BecauseYouCan

7. #butnotasmanyasthesebecauseitsannoying

I can't think of other things that make me cringe on hashtag usage. I'll just update this when I found another one. Haha!

I found this really helpful infographic from Digital Relevance that shows how powerful hashtags are.

Photo from www.relevance.com.

And to end this post, here's the very handsome Justin Timberlake with Jimmy Fallon doing a very annoying video about hashtags. Hahaha!