Final Thoughts Entry#11

 I do enjoy enjoy blogging now that I have had several entries published as practice. The more I submit, the more I begin to develop online communication skills that are clear and appropriate. Such as, the way that my openings' (all entries) were lively and welcomed any readers into my thoughts while still maintaining a neutral tone to support the diverse attitude of different readers.

The challenges are that it is public so authors must have properly edited and revised their post before submitting it to the online world. An example is my "HASHTAG" post. The fifth paragraph has a color mistake behind the period symbol (5,1). Although it is not a huge error, it is still preventable had I taken more time to proof my entry prior to its publish.

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I learned that allowing the online world to know my thought, is not necessarily terrible thing because more often my peers share similar opinions. Therefore, we are able to connect with one another in an approach that is comfortable.Similarly, I learned, as a student, that english and proper writing skills are tools that I will be able to use in everyday activities. For instance, In my first entry, I stated that my blogging would be specifically aimed at topics that I am interested in learning more about. In other words, blogging is a resourceful educational tool.

However, there was little or no change to my understanding of any assignments or my classmates.

Of course, I feel that blogging was a useful part of the class because if it was not, then it would have not be created to begin with. Not to mention, that its structure allowed the class to gain confidence in their writing. 

#HASHTAGS Entry#7

                                     #HASHTAGS#

I am not sure how to engage on this topic because hashtags are completely alien to me. I know, I am not "hip" as my mother always tells me, but Ill take a wild guess at it anyway...

  When I hear the term "hashtag" I think of a kind of verbal label. 
Kind of how asterisks are used in instant messaging; They outline whichever action word is presented. This, represents that person "physically" performing the aimed cyber move. An example, *laugh*, *cry*, or *tickle*.  Obviously, these are physical movements that cannot be done through typing. The concept simply adds more characterized details to internet communication.

Moving forward, a hashtag must be an upgraded version that extends an author's voice into the cyber community. Another could be that is instead just a more generalized verbal topic of the text which can be seen in hashtag like, #party, #smile, and #hug.

In actuality, hashtag is a noun that is defined online, on dictionary.com, as a means to identify a keyword that focuses on a specific topic of interest; In order, to conveniently locate additional information. 
If used in the pretense that I foresaw (as a verb), hashtag becomes an action verb instead of a descriptive noun. An example would be, " She is addicted to hash tagging."

It appears that just like any other trend, or style, (#) hash tagging originated in 2009 on Twitter ( according to Urban Dictionary), and was first used as, "#flight1549". The tweet was created by a user that was acknowledging a plane crash into the Hudson River. The popularity grew after correspondences were made to the tweet and common knowledge spread about the useful hashtag symbol.

It is amazing how someone can do something ever so slightly and it travel around the world until reaching a point of common knowledge. 
Things like this make me wonder why so many people doubt one person changing the world. New trends begin everyday so that it is almost impossible to see the process of change.