Benefits of using #hashtag in your Facebook status updates With the objective of  taking conversations about events, topics and people at the forefront, Facebook introduced the # symbol, called hashtag, to mark keywords. Searches now displays results based on those keywords and locate conversations about them. Let take for example the keyword ipad. Typing that keyword preceded by the hashtag into the search bar,  as shown in graphic below, returns status updates that are talking about the ipad: You could … Continue reading →