Folksonomies in websites are great for labeling pics and what not. It's a feature that identifies and organizes information. We call it tagging. I for one am fond of it. One of the articles quotes the cofounder of Flickr who says that many people don't use tags. This is true I use other people's tags, but I rarely create them myself. Why is this? Well me...I'm lazy. But I'll be uploading some pics on Flickr and I'll try my hand at it then.
I like this quote, "the job of tags isn't to organize all the world's information into tidy categories," said Stewart Butterfield, one of Flickr's co-founders. "It's to add value to the giant piles of data that are already out there."
It's an extra step and all, but its's a benefit to users.
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