#Can’tStandIt

I don’t know how many of you guys have read two of my older posts – Text Language Should Be Made Illegal and Signs You’re Addicted To Social Media, but I guess now that I mentioned the titles, you can get the gist that I am not a fan of abbreviating a language nor spending time on social media.

Let me clear the air first.

I do use social media – WordPress is definitely a social medium and I love being on this platform that hosts just what I love doing – writing. It has also given me a reasonable number of blogger friends with whom I like interacting with. I also use Whatsapp, excluding the fact I uninstall it from time to time without a second thought when I need to write my book with no distractions.

But I don’t use Facebook, Twitter or Instagram or any other popular media which I’m not familiar with. I used to be urged to get onto them, and now I’m urged to stay where I am and not to enter into those platforms. I’m not going to get into the reasons but I do have one personal reason to avoid a certain headache that comes with today’s package deal.

Hashtags.

It’s turned into this language that I think will be recorded into history.

#My #Whatsapp #Status #Inbox #Delivers #An #Anthology #Of #Hashtags #That #When #You #Remove #Them, will turn into a sentence.

I don’t think people really look up tags like, #Cantfindmybestoutfit or #Ishouldprobablyliveinahole.

Or #Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh.

Space bar on your keyboard not working properly or something? Cause most of these are from Smartphone keyboards rather than the ones on a computer or a laptop.

Hashtags are actually pointers for browsers to get to the topic of their choice quickly. Things like #Books, #Politics, #Makeup, #Movies and other authentic stuff. And I think using a number less than ten for any post would be neat.

But the status updates, whether it’s Facebook or Whatsapp, that explode with the naughts and crosses grid are downright cringe-worthy and I’m not exaggerating. Even the normal Whatsapp statuses of some people have hashtags. For example, they’d have a profile picture of, say, a puppy. And the status below will read – Cutie pie #Iwantone #Isn’thesooooooooooooocuteeeeee

A status update of another will have a video of their safari ride atop an elephant in some other country or some other part of the same country you live in, with the caption – Had the best day of my life!

That sounds okay.

But what’s with these? – #Gottatrythis #Guyssssssssssss

It’s not cool or a pretty sight.

At all.

It actually labels the person as completely eccentric, in my opinion.

What do you think about the hashtag script, guys?

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