{"id":14930,"date":"2012-11-29T11:39:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T17:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=14930"},"modified":"2012-11-29T12:14:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:14:23","slug":"hashtag-meet-facepalm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/culture\/hashtag-meet-facepalm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashtag, Meet Facepalm"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a story spreading on Facebook<\/a> and other social media about a mother who tweeted:<\/p>\n

Hashtag Jameson was born at 10oclock last night. She weys* 8pounds and I luv \u00a0her so much!!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, I am not including a direct link or screenshot, as I do not think we should be hunting down and mocking this woman to her face.\u00a0We can, however, totally mock her behind her back, and not just for not knowing how to spell weighs or love.<\/p>\n

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Lady, there’s an app for that.
[Image source: Apple, Inc.]<\/p><\/div>\n

Is this poor child, who, as we see from the featured image that was included with the original Tweet is actually pretty darn cute, really \u00a0saddled with the name Hashtag or did the mother just not know where the # was on her keyboard and figured it was the next best thing? There was a couple in Israel last year who named their child Like<\/a>, after the Facebook feature, but then Love is an actual Hebrew name (Ahava). Techcitement writer Dani Weiss-Bronstein weighed in on some other interesting Hebrew names she’s come across:<\/p>\n

“My friend had a girl named Ta’ut (Mistake) in her class. And she knew another girl named Achzava (Disappointment) whose parents had wanted a boy.\u00a0Yay for permanent damage! And [husband] thought I was nuts that I wanted to name one of our children Beowulf.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I feel sorry for those kids, but I also can’t help wondering how, assuming this is a legit story, Hashtag and the rest of these seemingly unfortunately-named children will feel in 20 years. I doubt Twitter will be around at that time, at least in the form we know now. Imagine a child from even four years ago being named MySpace or some 10 year old saddled with the name Geocities; how would she even explain either of those outdated names to her friends? Could be worse though, Hashtag’s parents could’ve named the child Usenet.<\/p>\n

We now leave you with the\u00a0immortal\u00a0song-stylings of Mister Johnny Cash.<\/p>\n

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There’s a story spreading on Facebook and other social media about a mother who tweeted: Hashtag Jameson was born at 10oclock last night. She weys* 8pounds and I luv \u00a0her so much!!!! No, I am not including a direct link or screenshot, as I do not think we should be hunting down and mocking this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,1920,908,1609],"tags":[3641,124,3640,3639,3644,958,49,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14933,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14930\/revisions\/14933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}