The week’s trending hashtags

Shahd Alhamdan   When it comes to daily life in the Kingdom, Saudis across the board use social media to express their opinions and feelings, and as the end of the year is less than two weeks away, this week’s trending hashtags mainly focused on 2015. Under the popular #2015Lessons hashtag, a female tweeted saying that people should focus more on mending their mistakes rather than defending them. Another user said: “people should never give up on an idea they love. A person’s job is to produce work that their client couldn’t imagine. Stay on it until its made.” In the hashtag “summarize 2015 in one word” most people put up negative messages, with very few saying it was an amazing year. One female user said it was a year of growth. One user said the year began well for her, but that everything had changed and now for her 2015 was a bad year. One Twitter user posted images of King Abdullah and Prince Saud bin Faisal, and said it was a sad year as the Kingdom had lost great people. Sadness, death, and pain were common words used in the hashtag. The hashtag “the party of people who eat and do not gain weight,” was one of the trending hashtags with funny comments. Mobarak Alshamari, one Twitter user said, “please take care of our emotions.” One user tweeted that as soon as he smells food, he gains weight immediately. One female user posted sarcastically that she ate six meals everyday and still didn’t gain weight.