Is Anyone Using Flickr’s People-Tagging Feature?

by Aaron on November 17, 2009

tagsIt’s been nearly a month since Flickr announced support for tagging people in photos. Are you using it?

Personally I’ve tagged a few people as I’ve uploaded small groups of photos, but when I process a large quantity of pictures for an event or other client job I haven’t been taking the time to tag people. When I’ve browsed around to various photos, most of them don’t seem to be people-tagged.

Is it just me, or is Flickr’s people-tagging feature being underutilized? Why? What do you think?

Photo by sheldonschwartz, used under Creative Commons licensing

These other posts might be of interest to you:

  1. Tips for Effective Flickr Tagging
  2. Tag! You’re It on Flickr
  3. An Introduction to Flickr’s Contacts Feature

Tagged as: flickr, tagging

  • http://camikaos.com/ CamiKaos

    I tagged someone for the novelty of it, but I don't really feel compelled to go back and tag all my old photos, nor do I recall everyone's flickr names. I also find it a bit inconvenient that you're only be able to tag your own contacts. Another part that bothers me is that you can't tag yourself in a photo if it was taken by a non contact. I would have found that useful for photos taken of myself at large public events. I hate the thought of making every photo of myself a “favorite” because it just isn't true, but I was looking forward to the people tagging feature as a way to be able to keep track of my own image.

    It sounds like I woke up on the wrong side of the people tag.

  • http://siliconflorist.com turoczy

    I've grown addicted to people tagging in iPhoto and have tried to carry that over into Flickr. While I haven't retroactively tagged a lot of my content, I'm trying to do it on a regular basis with new content.

  • http://camikaos.com/ CamiKaos

    I tagged someone for the novelty of it, but I don't really feel compelled to go back and tag all my old photos, nor do I recall everyone's flickr names. I also find it a bit inconvenient that you're only be able to tag your own contacts. Another part that bothers me is that you can't tag yourself in a photo if it was taken by a non contact. I would have found that useful for photos taken of myself at large public events. I hate the thought of making every photo of myself a “favorite” because it just isn't true, but I was looking forward to the people tagging feature as a way to be able to keep track of my own image.

    It sounds like I woke up on the wrong side of the people tag.

  • http://siliconflorist.com turoczy

    I've grown addicted to people tagging in iPhoto and have tried to carry that over into Flickr. While I haven't retroactively tagged a lot of my content, I'm trying to do it on a regular basis with new content.

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