I thought it would be interesting to dedicate a post to tagging behaviour that I’ve observed over the past year and a half or so of being on Facebook…so here it is!

• The Ghost tagger – Tagging people who promised to show at the gathering but didn’t. Tagging people who are part of your clique but couldn’t show.
• The Accidental tagger – Tagging the wrong person because you have a couple of people sharing the same first name and surname. And having to leave a comment asking the album owner to “Please remove the wrong tag, sorry!”.
• The Lazy tagger – Tagging only one person once in the entire album so that they know of the album’s existence. And crossing your fingers that the crowd will come and tag the rest of the photos themselves.
• The Obsessive Compulsive tagger – Tags each and EVERY single photo in the millions of albums, including arms and limbs and random shoes and objects that belong to the person.
• The Non tagger – Does not do tags. At all. Typical attitude -If people want their photos, they can just monitor the news feed or click to my profile because tags are “so not my style”.
• “Wish you were here” tags – Waking up and finding that your friend who is traveling at some exotic location has amazingly (or not so amazingly) managed to find something (like the local fire hydrant) that reminds him of you, and as such, has tagged you.
• The De-Tagger - Having woken up and finding that your well meaning friend likens the local fire hydrant to you (see “wish you were here” tag), you promptly de-tag it so that no awkward questioning can come from people who don’t know the story behind the curious tag. De-tagging occurs also in cases where you think you look like you just rolled out of bed. Or similar.
• “You are what you eat” tags- Tagging people’s favourite foods in a food shot, because who else could that plate of chicken rice represent but… you? Works also for spoils of war from shopping, party drinks, etc.
• “Where’s Wally” tags – Eagle-eyed taggers who just simply cannot miss you, that pixelated blob in the background mob and tag you accurately. “How on earth did you manage to spot me?” moment ensues.
• Random better-late-than-never tags – Linked to the Lazy tagger mentioned above. Going through old albums uploaded eons ago may trigger tagging behaviour.
• Just too many tags! – I recently found that the limit for photo tagging is 30 people. There is a limit? You ask. Yes, there is. Almost everything has a limit. Maybe in future, tagging can also allow for the size of the square to be controlled by the person tagging.

Have I missed out any other quirky tag behaviours? Do share!

Tags: facebook, tag, tagging, facebook tag, web2.0, photos, albums, behaviour, psychology,