So the news this week is that
hashtags have come to facebook, citing that the feature’s nothing new and is
already on Twitter, instagram, pinterest and now on facebook. Over the past week
or so I have seen attempts by friends who were trying to use the hashtag albeit
unsuccessfully. I mean they were not clickable which means that the feature has
not been fully rolled out yet and is just coming of age.
One more fact is that facebook does
not roll out a change to all of its users at once, slow and steady does facebook
and the reason may be what we call split testing. Set it,see what happens, ok
they are loving cool otherwise dump it.
The reasoning behind the roll out is
that being a social platform lot of conversations happen here everyday on
facebook. Whenever any serial show ends or goes on the conversations
abound.
Say the IPL is going live, we see a
battle between the fans of both teams as each of them cheer and vouch for their
teams. I have always felt that Facebook is more alive than twitter and
conversations do need to be carried over to. But not all users are happy with
hashtags as they look spammy and destroy the aesthetics of a post.
Anyhow use it only if you feel
comfortable with, being a blogger I can only say that I have to face this
whether I like it or not.
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