However, Beth Gallaway brought up an excellent point via her twitter:  “If they [tags] are standardized it becomes a formal taxonomy … Which is the opposite of a folksonomy.”

And isn’t one of the great things about social media the folksonomy – a chance to see what comes out of the various minds on the internet, to allow people to search and categorize in all sorts of ways?  It doesn’t take up real estate to tag both “teen culture” and “emo” so why not?  Who know what connections can be made if we leave the field open?