Tagging trend
We are starting to see them everywhere, you just cannot escape them these days it seems, tags are the most trendy way of identifying and categorising everything, blog posts, bookmarks, even your entire file system.
I can’t help but think they are negative in some ways, using tags is a fairly sloppy way of organising data, they may work well for categorising websites but tagging files? Surely this will lead to bad naming conventions and a disorganised file structure as people begin to rely on tags to find their files and folders?
Personally I think they are very useful for categorising articles on a website or some other type of web content that needs to be grouped together for easy reference but it seems to me that people are trying to find excuses to use tags everything they can think of.
Maybe I’m just old fashioned, I am used to strict naming conventions and careful data management, it comes with my background. Personally I would never consider using tags as a way to organise my file system.








