Folksonomies (storage) and tagging

Has meta-data actually helped?

The general way to collection information has ceased from having to categorize by subject matter and then alphabetical filed. The internet has created a different form of categorizing, when it comes to social networks like Flickr, Tumblr and Twitter. Folksonomies and taxonomies is the new storage structure but for technology it could never be done.

Online storage has become a problem with sites that the user has the control to create the way the information is stored. Being able to tag people to this that have no connection to it; some pictures might be your leg and strand of your hair which is connected. Something’s that could be approved as random tagging is your mother, boyfriend or cat, because it has a straight connection. Tagging someone name into an update or link that has a benefit to that person, but silly pictures or events in Shanghai's has a complete irrelevance. This is the meaning of folksonomy; a total irrelevant way in a database. One thing I do like is the keywords on Facebook like typing in ‘Brighton’ and your friends that recently mentioned that word, will come up. This is how the search engine begins.

Google has the same ranking system which works well with one keyword but a more words cause problems. Instead of following the question exactly, it takes the words from different paragraphs in a site and just highlights the words even though there plenty of...  The problem when making a database is how general it has become like Pink Panther and the words would be pink, panther, cat, cartoon, yellow eyes, tail etc. YouTube can sort who it was made by, have a time frame of when it was uploaded to narrow down the search. 

Taxonomies have a rigid structure and which can’t be changed and facts and categorising stays the same. With websites things are set in a plan; fashion shows would be under fashion and beauty, not a scattered mess. Folksonomy are creative, but unreliable and creates an overload; tagging in blogs is important. I could tag to this post metadata, tagging, Facebook, totally brilliant which is my idea of how I would sum up this blog post. It’s being able to see the bigger picture and going beyond the normal collection of the human mind, which is the same for hash tags on Twitter.

This storage system in technology would have no point making life so much harder. This encrypted database would have no clue how things would work. As the user, I can make files to my use, but what the phone has filed I cannot change the filing. Example would be trying to store a MMS in Pictures just because it link doesn’t mean it will work.

This idea will never become redundant because it has a wider value on the internet, because it’s too big of a place to organise.  Just have to work with the storage plan; it isn’t Big Yellow.