Annie Leonard: The Story of Cap and Trade

For those of you who don't know her, you've got to check into this author. In her newest video she discusses emissions/pollution trading and the market. Check it out.

What to do about Facebook tagging.

You go about your general business: uploading an image set, etc., only to discover later that the involved entities have removed their image tags. Now this can be for numerous reasons: they don't like the image, they have too many images, they don't want their private life to be accessible... but this really doesn't make sense.

Take my cousin for example, at current she has 1,818 images tagged with her name on them. Really girl, you had to remove your name from that one image from Thanksgiving? Are you serious? This brought me to wonder, what to we call a person who is either snobbish or particular about Facebook image tagging?

After taking a click over to Urban Dictionary I left a bit frustrated. There were numerous listings for those who tag more than the prescribed amount or in an injurious fashion, including: tag diss, tag happy, tag queen, tag whore, tag-holic, tagfag, tagster, and my personal favorite, taggot. Other nouns and adjectives were also present including tag lag, tagable or taggable, tagafull, taggin' it, tagging spree, and tagworthy. Yet only one definition was proposed against those who are finicky or somewhat disliking of tags: tag-hater. That's it, tag-hater. You would think in this world of never-ending tag-poster dislike there would be a better dissing world for the counterpart.

Can't we do better? Tagophobic seems best, quoted in David Sifry's blog, but even at that, it seems to lack the acerbic tone reflected by the word taggot. Also, the word reflects a complete antipathy for tags, not the haughty finickiness espoused by my cousin. For now, I guess the Tagophobes have it. How tragic that in this day and age we've grown so non-committal. True, we communicate openly between our best strangers and enemies on social networking pages, but for the those who demonstrate imprudence in sharing images from the real world, look out. We have no time for your shenanigans, we were enjoying our alternate universe just fine without you.