What does the Term "Hash Tag mean?

I think I might use #fredflintstone for my next avatar name!

That was irony by the way, not goldy or bronzey!

We used to manage very well without hashtags and IT. 

We used to manage very well without caravans full of mod cons but it's much more pleasant having them. 

Embrace evolution and move forward or reject it and stagnate. I'll take the former option, thanks. 

I just leave the language of youth to the youth. 

That way abominations like 'groovy' get left behind. 

We used to manage very well without hashtags and IT. 

We used to manage very well without caravans full of mod cons but it's much more pleasant having them. 

Embrace evolution and move forward or reject it and stagnate. I'll take the former option, thanks. 

Except "Facebook" 

 Because hashtags are now seen and used everywhere, . . . 

 

Really?   Everywhere?   Not where I read, or go.

I too love keeping up with technology, but it has evolved so fast that our (not mine I hasten to add ) social manners have not kept up with it.

I too love keeping up with technology, but it has evolved so fast that our (not mine I hasten to add ) social manners have not kept up with it.

That's a very good point, Dave. Examples can be seen on a daily basis. 

Thanks bandgirl- that helps me too #grateful. !

Write your comments here...You're welcome, Merve. #JobDone

or even ###

(Go look that up now!)

bandgirl, thanks but that really didn't help me because I think that I'd worked most of that out. Its the use of the term in normal speak          ( Conversation) that I don't understand.  People use it now almost as a punctuation mark. They will say " Oh she's one of the hashtag  ..... people", or something like that. I don't think they were necessarily being rude, just using the term in a descriptive way? or....?

As I say its all beyond me.

TF

I needed Rochelle's description about the use in conversation too. I suppose it's a bit like the way people do quotation marks with their fingers.