Tag Mentality

While social bookmarking, tagging, and cloud cluster clingy code names are interesting and add another level of interaction to my web experience, there are some things that I feel don’t really need to be viewed and reviewed and interviewed by the masses. Constant updates to your away messages, for instance, with an up-to-the-minute itinerary of your January 22nd are one of the things that I don’t need to see updated, linked, sourced, and tagged every three and a half minutes. Some things are just inappropriate and obnoxious to attempt. Tagging can be extremely useful when I want to find brand new subjects or material that are similar to my interests. Its like gaining a new perspective on an old opinion.

With that said, the so called “Smart” Fitting Room is just one of those abominations that attempts to involve the masses and make everyone more social and connected. The smart fitting room is a completely absurd idea; it is Web 2.0 goodness taken out of context. There are some things that don’t work no matter how you skew them. No one wants to watch some tacky guy try to coordinate his khaki’s with his polos. This is essentially a social herd-mind experimentation. If Jane Eyre sees Suzy Q trying on Plaid Mini Skirt B, will she be tempted to buy it because Suzy is head of the student council? Maybe I just don’t understand what it means to be social in this age, seeing as I tend to keep my away messages to the simple, descriptive, “Not present,” and “Very away,” and leave it at that.

Who really wants cameras in their dressing room anyway? Accidents happen.