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Well, imo, it's the main component of what made Facebook really take off - especially so to certain demographics (35+) that normally wouldn't touch a social networking site with a 10 foot pole -- if it wasn't for the mini-feed/profile content being updated with photos what other 'info' is really sticky/appealing enough to have many ppl hooked from the start? Photos.
Without it, everything else was basically the same - apart from a cleaner interface and nifty controls over who sees your information/profile.
Think about it -- prior to such efficient tagging it was the case that pics of you were buried off in someone else's profile/photobucket/wherever and it was up to you to go and download it and upload it to your own space/etc. That's tiresome and only the die-hards ever bothered to put the effort required to keep their pics fresh/recent -- most ppl have a friend in their social circle who is more into taking pics than others - 'tagging' allows that friend to take on the role of documenting social events you participate in.
My only beef is that they should have an option to ask your permission prior to allowing a friend to tag you in a photo -- but that would mean less updates and of course less pageviews - which is not a good thing since apparently Facebook is just breaking even.
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