http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/reputation-management/new-facebook-game-assault-tagging/ Dustin Woodard's thoughts on search, social media, web analytics and the web in general. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:05:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/reputation-management/new-facebook-game-assault-tagging/#comment-41529 Mary Pope-Handy Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:32:25 +0000 http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/reputation-management/new-facebook-game-assault-tagging/#comment-41529 And it doesn't have to be mean-spirited.... I tagged a flock of flamingoes as being my husband since he has a running joke about them. He took the pic and made it his profile. Our son tagged a pic of himself as being my sister since they looked a bit alike. And it doesn’t have to be mean-spirited…. I tagged a flock of flamingoes as being my husband since he has a running joke about them. He took the pic and made it his profile. Our son tagged a pic of himself as being my sister since they looked a bit alike.

]]> http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/reputation-management/new-facebook-game-assault-tagging/#comment-41290 Scott Bush » Photo tagging: the next blow in online reputation management Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:34:40 +0000 http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/reputation-management/new-facebook-game-assault-tagging/#comment-41290 [...] I ran across a strange photo tag on Facebook the other day: the rear-end of a horse tagged “Joe has such a pretty face” that had been associated with another person with whom I’m friends on the social-networking site. Luckily, it was just another friend of ours, Dustin—himself a savvy web user and analyst—pushing the envelope. You can read his post on the subject, which he aptly calls “assault-tagging” at his blog, Web Connoisseur. [...] [...] I ran across a strange photo tag on Facebook the other day: the rear-end of a horse tagged “Joe has such a pretty face” that had been associated with another person with whom I’m friends on the social-networking site. Luckily, it was just another friend of ours, Dustin—himself a savvy web user and analyst—pushing the envelope. You can read his post on the subject, which he aptly calls “assault-tagging” at his blog, Web Connoisseur. [...]

]]> http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/reputation-management/new-facebook-game-assault-tagging/#comment-41289 Scott Bush Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:20:43 +0000 http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/reputation-management/new-facebook-game-assault-tagging/#comment-41289 Ah, a funny joke to be sure. And certainly, if you hadn't started it, someone would have at some point. But these sorts of things are what lead services like Facebook to have to implement restrictions (such as requiring users to approve tags in photos) that make the whole process more cumbersome. Of course, the other view can be taken: you're a white-hat "hacker" exposing potential issues with Facebook so they can set up safeguards (like my example above) before any "real" damage might occur. This is the sort of thing I'd expect to see on MySpace with its younger-skewed demographic. But time--and the sort of people you've friended--will demonstrate how wide spread this tactic will become. Ah, a funny joke to be sure. And certainly, if you hadn’t started it, someone would have at some point. But these sorts of things are what lead services like Facebook to have to implement restrictions (such as requiring users to approve tags in photos) that make the whole process more cumbersome.
Of course, the other view can be taken: you’re a white-hat “hacker” exposing potential issues with Facebook so they can set up safeguards (like my example above) before any “real” damage might occur.
This is the sort of thing I’d expect to see on MySpace with its younger-skewed demographic. But time–and the sort of people you’ve friended–will demonstrate how wide spread this tactic will become.

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