Facebook to introduce hashtags

Social networking site Facebook has announced plans to introduce clickable hashtags for users.The tool is already widely used on Twitter, as well as photo-sharing app Instagram, as a way for users to find out what others are discussing and following certain discussions. Facebook users have already begun adding hashtags to comments and status updates, yet they weren't previously able to use them as a search tool.

Facebook has now made this possible. 

When a Facebook user now adds a hashtagged word or phrase to a post, other users will be able to click it and use it as a search term. 

Hashtag phrases include multiple words stringed together. 

They will be presented with a list of other users across the site that are also currently using that word or phrase and discussing the same things.