The mission of the Wylie East High School news site is to inform, educate and entertain readers. Established Jan. 13, 2011. Principal: Mrs. Tiffany Doolan; Adviser: Ms. Kimberly Creel

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The mission of the Wylie East High School news site is to inform, educate and entertain readers. Established Jan. 13, 2011. Principal: Mrs. Tiffany Doolan; Adviser: Ms. Kimberly Creel

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The mission of the Wylie East High School news site is to inform, educate and entertain readers. Established Jan. 13, 2011. Principal: Mrs. Tiffany Doolan; Adviser: Ms. Kimberly Creel

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Hash tags belong on Twitter; not Facebook

#havingfun, #likeaboss, #sobored, #winning, #thisisfortwitter. The Twitter fascination of hash tags, to add an extra oomph to a post has transferred over to Facebook.

They are two separate sites. Keep them that way. Hash tags (#) are used to sort posts into categories and they are fine for Twitter, but Facebook does not need them.

Facebook and Twitter are both social networking sites. Facebook has statuses while Twitter has tweets, in reality, so very similar. That’s not the problem here, though, it’s what follows that is bothersome. Many Facebook users have started using the hash tag that Twitter uses to categorize things on their day-to-day statuses. Cut it out! It’s obnoxious! There’s this magical thing that Facebook has where the user can tag friends, say who they’re with and even where they are. Find a way to put the clever hash tag comment into a sentence. Leave the hash tags with Twitter.

Well, they’re all social networking sites so they should all have interchangeable lingo, right? Wrong! Putting a hash tag on Facebook holds no purpose. On Twitter it allows the site to sort postings into ‘what’s trending’ but on Facebook it just looks like the person is unable to use correct sentence structure.

Hash tag users should stick to Twitter or learn how not to use them on other sites. Make a mental wall between the sites; use them for what they are meant for.
And for the record, #trollolololololol

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Caitlyn Bogart
Caitlyn Bogart, Co-Editor In Chief
Good day, evening, afternoon or whatever time of day it happens to be while you read this, I hope you’re having a great time. I am a senior and Editor in Chief. I look forward to making our team as strong and seamless as possible. I honestly have no idea how to write this. You would think I would be better considering I’ve done this for three years running, but I’m a news writer. I am much better at writing about others. Writing is a huge part of my life. I plan on majoring in Business Marketing and English with a creative writing minor because I also write fiction books, one of which will be published this year for my Texas Performance Study Program (TPSP) project, so watch out! I live inside my head a lot and enjoy long philosophical conversations. I kind of feel like I just wrote an ad for a dating site. Didn’t mean to, but it happened.

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