Over Heard at Brunch....with Hashtags.

 

It was a wonderful day to get out for a fall brunch. The clan and I go for Sunday brunch once a month, and today was the day we hit New Hope. While we were at our brunch establishment, and enjoying our food and various libations, a conversation had caught my attention, and before long the whole clan was privy to it. A group of, I'll call, "social network" queens had said they never heard such chatter. One said they probably hadn't seen each other in a couple years. Mind ya we do see each other often. 

 

Now I have had several Bloody Mary's so lets let it rip......

 

 Now if you know me, you'll know that I don't partake in Facebook, Twitter or the like, and I find it a HUGE reason for people being socially retarded. I just don't have the time. And they really aren't my speed. Call me old fashioned, by I prefer to go out face to face, get dressed up, talk, catch up, and have conversation over a gin and tonic. And if your someone I wanted to be talking to or if I cared what happened to somebody, you'd be in my life. Now it seems there is hardly ever talking or socializing, and people are constantly on their phones while driving, walking, shopping, and while in the company of others. Hence the table of queens next to us, who obliviously, God love em, made the attempt to get ready to go to brunch, but once there, all they did was stay on there phones, no doubt on their social network of choice. What the hell is the point of going to a damn brunch!?!? If I'm on a date and a guy is constantly on their phone, there done, not even sport nookie. And what's  worst was the use of, as a clutch my pearls,

the use of the hashtag!!!!!!!

 

 

Now, between the two major causes of social retardation, I can accept Facebook just a wee tad more, but Twitter!!!!!! And the damn hashtag craze is driving me nuts, and I'm not even on it!!!!! Hashtags are topics, trends, subjects, and names indicated by a number sign(#)preceding a word or phrase. Like: if you were talking about me you’d hashtag #fabulous #minx. Hashtags allow users to find relevant content via search. When enough people use the same hashtag, it trends, which can help raise awareness of causes and events. I hate hashtags. I think they are the absolute most annoying thing, and it's bad enough there used on those networks, but now there being seen in ads, and commercials, like the annoying Subway ad!  Now Subway actually has a commercial where they pronounce the hashtag. Hashtag!! Hashtag!!! Maybe this commercial is just a satirical look of how carried away society is with these unimportant fad trends.I hate them even more when people decide to put 20 words in a single hashtag. Celebrities seems to be the worst with this. When I see something like that, I am tuned out immediately. I’m sorry, but that does not make you cool.

 

 

Now it's bad enough we see them, now people are SPEAKING THEM IN!!!!!! Grabs smelling salts.... Now mind you, I'm no English scholar, or at times a great speller, but isn't our grammar already muddled enough, now we need to add all this crap in?!?! I can remember Heidi Klum using it in commercials, and wanted to take my jungle red nails and slap the bitch, making a hashtag on her pretty mug. I hate the Hashtag, it's stupid and annoying. It is bad enough that to me it will always be called a pound sign, but now people are beginning to speak using the Hashtag. I don't get it.It won’t be long before the following might be typical conversation.

 

Well hello, don’t you look nice tonight; Hashtag hot Hashtag nice bulge in jeans.”

 

“Oh, why thank you; Hashtag nothappening Hashtag urcreepy.”

 

 

“I thought maybe we could do dinner and a movie; Hashtag getudrunk Hashtag getinurpnts.”

                      “Dinner would be nice; Hashtag Ihavemace.”

 

 Now that is what drove me nuts at brunch,that the boys at the next table, when they did talk about things, occasionally threw in the hashtag when speaking. Oy vey....I only hope this Hashtag fad crap doesn’t make its way to the Casa du Borghese. Or I'll go insane and my gin intake will be at a all time high. Of course, I have the best solution for that damn blue Twitter bird to kill the thing...