If you use Twitter, firstly, you should be following 94.3 The Point. Secondly, the use of hashtags (#) are yesterday's news to you. But, recently Facebook started allowing the use of hashtags and many people feel that hashtagging was gotten #outofcontrol.

Hashtags provide a means of grouping like messages, then one can search for the hashtag and get the set of messages that contain it. But now, any word or phrase has become a hashtag. Instead of sharing thoughts on one's job and using the hashtag #work, people are using #icantbelievethekindofdayimhavingaworkandicanttakeitanymore. Kudos if you could make that out! Justin Timberlake visited his good buddy Jimmy Fallon and the two depicted perfectly how hashtags are getting out of hand.

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