I’m not hash tagging anything anymore. Half the time when I
do so on instagram it fails to post the comment and I’m left with a
#silentsunday post, leaving the reader to guess what the picture is all about,
so I stopped doing that and instead joined in with #mysundayphoto with Darren
@onedad3girls where words are permitted. Now you’ll notice I’ve included 2
hashtags in the opening paragraph after stating I won’t be using them anymore,
but what I’m referring to is the random hashtags such as #travel,
#traveltuesday #ttot and various other ones #teens #teenagers and the twitter parties sponsored by various companies usually led by a mums group or a company
promoting their products.
Why? Because rarely anything comes of it, I write travel
blogs, holidays with teens, solo travel, parenting tips, volunteering and charity
work, I hashtag, I link up, I RT others, I interact, I engage and then there’s
a monthly round up or an analysis of the twitter party, Do I get mentioned? Does anyone RT me? Does anyone link back to my blog post? Ha, rarely, if ever.
Other than #mysundayphoto, hashtags don’t actually work for
me. I can follow a conversation, see RT’s from others and interact and engage with individuals without having to promote mums groups, companies or products.
If I’m interested in a subject I see hashtagged, I rarely click on the hashtag
to find out what other people are saying about it, I’ll google the subject and
check the official news sites anyway as I want facts, rarely opinions, although
I have plenty to give.
So from now on the only hashtags you’ll see from me are ones
where I’ve asked to be involved, ones where I want to promote the work of others
such as #SSB2014 the Santa Shoebox project that I’m a coordinator for or if
I’ve entered a competition for where a hashtag forms part of the rules and any campaigns I'm involved with such as SAB18Plus.
