#HashtagEtiquette: 8 People Who Are Doing It Wrong
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Hashtags are everywhere on social media. With the proliferation, comes the need for etiquette, and Mashable offers these eight hashtag abuses with colorful examples.
#Too #many #hashtags. It is not OK if your hashtags exceed paragraph length. It's just not.
Unrelated hashtags. They are confusing, and don't serve your purpose of accurately marking whatever it is you're trying to show the world.
You #hashtag every #other word. This makes you look like a hashtag amateur who just discovered it yesterday.
Saying “hashtag” in real life. Internet culture has a way of creeping into our daily lexicon – but resist the urge to actually say "hashtag," lest you end up sounding as crazy as Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake.
Excessive competitive hashtagging. Chances of winning a competition via social media are just as difficult as winning the lottery.
Facebook hashtags. Hashtags are still very much Twitter's territory, so try not to go tag-crazy on your Facebook account. It just doesn't feel right yet.
The #longhashtag. Run-on sentences aren't a good thing, and neither are exceedingly long hashtags. They're ridiculously difficult to read, especially if you put all of the words in lowercase.
#Like4Like #TeamFollowBack. We understand that having a following on social media can be a great thing. However, within the social media community are users determined to get likes from strangers, even willing to retweet and like posts as long as the action is reciprocated. This is how you end up with random followers clogging your timeline or News Feed. It's just not worth it.
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