Which is more user friendly for the "mass population" on the internet? Is it better to present the traditional "category" pattern when having them post something on your site, or is the "tagging" pattern considered user friendly enough to rely on?
Answer
Well they should be for different uses. Tagging is for adding some meta data to an object. To describe it. Categories are more organizational and a way of grouping all content into few groups.
Here is a good article explaining the difference.
So its the age old answer that "it depends" on the use. If you want the users to just add more description and meaning to images, posts, and other objects, then go with tagging.
If you want them putting those into few buckets that summarize all the content into topics, than categories.
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