Taxonomy/Folksonomy

I wonder if the next generation will change this to “tagsonomy”. With the popularity (and almost, necessity of) social networking and social media, the tag is the most popular and easiest means of classifying and organizing ideas and information. As this technological age moves forward its interesting to see the difference in uses of tags, and how people will use this ability to organize and categorize information which will stay for the rest of digital history. As with all things, sadly, the improper or unfocused use of tags will highly dilute sensible and usable information. A fear i personally have regarding tags is the over saturation that will occur as sites merge together and aggravate results.

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