Hash Tags on Facebook

It is amazing how quickly hash tags popped into existence and how even quicker they have disappeared. Those of us who were responsible for filing hard copy documents 30, 40 and 50 years ago tried to tell you that it was a bad idea, but nobody listened.

You see, it's really very simple but hard as hell to do! Just as with stuffing a piece of paper into a file cabinet or placing a computer file into a folder, the important thing is being able to retrieve it later. It does absolutely no good to carefully label something and carefully file it away unless you are extremely organized at how you go about this. It is essential to be consistent and use the same label for things that are similar or you wind up with a complete and total mess that is almost as difficult to sort out as if there were no attempt to organize things at all. The problem is that an extremely small percentage of the population is good at doing this. In my experience, less than 0.01%. I know the pitfalls and I have problems doing it.