{"id":1828,"date":"2013-09-16T08:08:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2025-01-19T07:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T12:23:02","slug":"doing-throwbackthursday-like-a-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2013\/09\/16\/doing-throwbackthursday-like-a-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing #ThrowbackThursday like a pro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In honour of Throwback Thursday, Lindsay Lohan recently posted an old-school picture with Kirsten Dunst on her Instagram account, saying \u201c#tbt @kirstendunst\u201d. They were adorable!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you are using Instagram or Twitter or even Facebook, it is (probably) inevitable for you to use or spy the hashtag #throwbackthursday, or #tbt, once, twice or even more.<\/p>\n

Social media experts\u2019 records show that more than 40 million pictures were\u00a0tagged with #tbt on Instagram, and roughly 23 million with #throwbackthursday.<\/p>\n

As your Facebook, Instagram or Twitter is flooded with these hashtags, you are either already amazed or irritated with it (I hazard a guess\u2014you are probably amazed\u2014some of the pictures are funny!). Want to know how this popular hashtag craze started?<\/p>\n

Its (possible) beginnings<\/h6>\n

No one knows. We can all probably just surmise.<\/p>\n

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Indeed, it is tough to identify the exact origin of the tag #throwbackthursday, but a search using the\u00a0Instagramers\u00a0<\/a>iPhone app will allow you to see the oldest tags on file and there you\u2019ll find out that in 2011, a user named @bobbysanders22<\/a> started to use the tag, which became synonymous with \u201cevents and objects that are no longer culturally relevant\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, Instagramers founder Philippe Gonzalez said in an interview that there\u2019s no clear indication that the user was the first person to use the hashtag: \u201cWe are never 100 percent sure, as Instagram is removing old tags these last months and some old ones could have been deleted.\u201d Hmmm…<\/p>\n

In January 26, 2012, it had some sort of legitimacy when Throwback Thursday put in the dictionary radar via the Urban dictionary which defined it as \u201cWhen you put a picture from \u2018awhile\u2019 ago on your social media sites\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Google Trends also show that people started using #ThrowbackThursday more regularly in February 2012, and since then people\u2019s interest in the hashtag game has increased significantly.<\/p>\n

It was also not possible to pinpoint exactly when Throwback Thursday started on Twitter. However, it is known that the Kardashian sisters were one of the frequent #tbt post-ers (and hence, its advocates). Kim\u2019s first recorded use of the hashtag was in February 2012.<\/p>\n

Enough about its history. In case you are wondering about it and now want to participate, let PCI teach you do how to do #ThrowbackThursday like a pro.<\/p>\n

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Here are some rules according to some social media experts and self-confessed #tbt addicts:<\/p>\n

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  1. Your throwback picture must be at least 5 years old. The older the photo, the better. If you have the hard copy of the old photo, it is cool to take a photo of it as well (okay, a scanner will do too). The #tbt photo must really show how different you are now from before. Photos from the polaroid zone are best. If you have childhood photos with now-popular actors and actresses, man, those are the best.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you want to post a photo from the more recent past, better tag it as #latergram, according to social media fanatics and experts (the advice: Respect Throwback Thursday).<\/p>\n

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    1. Please. No Pictures from summer or last week. No matter how excited you are to post your vacation pictures from last summer or last week and tag it as #tbt, contain yourself and place a different (more appropriate) tag instead.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. Do not post 20 million pictures for #tbt. Because you will have a gazillion chances (er, days) to post your best throwback photo for the succeeding days\u2014ergo (and a friendly tip), don\u2019t post it all at once. Give your friends the chance to be excited with, and or to guess, what to expect from you the following week.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. One or two #tbt posts per week is enough (a plea: please don\u2019t post more than two). And it is Throwback THURSDAY, so let that be your guide and do your posts every Thursday only.\n
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          To quote from singleblackmale.org:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Look, we know you have lots of old pics of yourself that you think are absolutely stunning. And we know you wanna share those pics with your new-found Instagram friends. However, those of us who have known you for ages, and have seen all these pictures of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Friendster and Blackplanet \u2013 we\u2019re not interested in seeing them again. Especially 8 in a row \u2026 on a Monday when we\u2019re trying to scroll our InstaTimeLine and see what folks got into this past weekend. We call it ThrowBackThursday for a reason.<\/i><\/p>\n

          And as one website said, \u201cTBT is all about comedic nostalgia. We know you looked cute as a baby, but posting angelical pictures of yourself is not nearly as amusing.\u00a0 Throwback Thursday was founded on principles of comedic relief. Embrace it<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

          Oh, one last thing, on #SelfieThrowback, there is no such thing, unless you were rolling around as a baby taking pictures of yourself.<\/p>\n

          With a report from digitaltrends.com<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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