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Facebook Photo Tags Are All About The Ego, Study Shows
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by Truemorist | July 13, 2009 at 02:29 pm
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A cnet blogger recently conducted a study comparing flickr and facebook tags. How effective was each one and which did users prefer?
Facebook seemed to reign supreme, mostly because of the vanity, I mean photo, tags.
During the course of the "scientific experiment", 88 vacation photos were uploaded onto facebook and approximately 200 were uploaded onto flickr.
The facebook user who uploaded the vacation photos tagged a few to alert his friends. This created a domino effect, a phenomenon that is commonly observed on facebook. It occurs when facebook users (a) want to procrastinate, (b) wish for others to see classy pictures of themselves, or (c) all of the above. The experiment provided a prime example:within 1-2 hours, his facebook friends had tagged all of the 88 vacation photos on facebook.
Flickr, however, was a sadder story. Only a handful of the 200 flickr pictures were tagged by one person who had been pestered to look at the photos.
Flickr tags, according to the experimenter, serve a different purpose. Power users make it their duty to tag certain flickr photos. When the Library of Congress uploaded a collection of archived photos in 2008, 4,615 photos were tagged 67,176 times by only 2,518 different users.
What it comes down to? Facebook is more user-friendly when it comes to tagging for the reasons that most people want to show off, I mean, tag. After all, as anyone with a facebook account and common sense knows, it has a newsfeed that makes it easier for everyone to find out about that vacation.
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