{"id":39933,"date":"2017-08-26T04:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39933"},"modified":"2017-08-25T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:03:27","slug":"happy-hashtag-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/26\/happy-hashtag-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"#happy #hashtag #anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/the-hashtag-and-the-use-of-knowledge-in-society\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brittany Hunter<\/a> informs us that the #hashtagrevolution is now ten years old:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This week the hashtag turned ten years old. As a writer, I am always looking for interesting and current topics to tackle. But this particular topic seemed completely insignificant to me. The symbol itself has existed for years. Why should I care about the anniversary of its repurposed use?<\/p>\n<p>But upon further investigation, it became apparent to me that the advent of the hashtag should not simply be brushed off and dismissed as a silly pop culture trend. In fact, it actually answered many questions posed in F.A. Hayek\u2019s essay &#8220;The Use of Knowledge in Society&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hashtag is Born<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social media\u2019s presence in our daily lives has reshaped the way our society exchanges information. But the fact that social media posts themselves are now able to be organized by a single \u201c#\u201d is quite remarkable. Now, all this decentralized knowledge is searchable on almost any social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, entrepreneur Chris Messina tweeted \u201c#barcamp\u201d from the then-obscure South by Southwest conference. By the end of 2007, it had been used on Twitter over 9,000 times. Today, over 125 million hashtags are used every day just on Twitter. With other social media platforms now utilizing this symbol, the total numbers are even grander.<\/p>\n<p>But at its very core, the hashtag provides the means of connecting humanity with essential knowledge for better managing our lives \u2013 no matter where it comes from or where it ends up. The hashtag serves as a symbolic reminder of the remarkable information utopia that is emerging via technology in our time, and its existence portends vast increases in human well being the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brittany Hunter informs us that the #hashtagrevolution is now ten years old: This week the hashtag turned ten years old. As a writer, I am always looking for interesting and current topics to tackle. But this particular topic seemed completely insignificant to me. The symbol itself has existed for years. Why should I care about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[593,310],"class_list":["post-39933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-socialmedia","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ao5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39934,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39933\/revisions\/39934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}