Why Exactly Do You Tag People?

by Kennedy Akpoveta

Why exactly do YOU tag people? Is it that you want your work to be read? Does tagging even guarantee that? While some people might read through, there are others who'd simply 'like' without reading and a few others who'd take their mischief further by making insincere comments that YOU somehow know, deep in your mind, to be so. So, how effective is that? Whether you like it or not, or know it or not, more often than not,
you inadvertently box people into a corner, leaving them with no option but to read, comment and like your write-up. Well, that might work for the first few times. Other times? That mildly stubborn streak in us humans that hates to be told what to do rises, and I guess you know what. I ask again, just how effective is that?
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Is it that you want to gauge the effectiveness and beauty of your write-up by the amount of likes and comments it gathers? Need I point out to you that something isn't automatically effective, truthful or beautiful just because the vast majority of people think it is? Haven't you seen strong posts with few likes and fewer comments as well as dumb posts with a lot of both? Does the one with more likes become better just because a hundred non-thinking dunderheads think otherwise? Why then would you use this method? Need I also tell you that gauging the progress of your work through these means is the highest degree of insecurity that easily leads one into delusions of grandeur, which in turn leads him into the trap of mistaking honors for achievements?
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Is it that you want people to 'criticize', or critique your work? How effective is this? How many people do you want to listen to? Two groups of people could attack the same work and it's style YET come out with different and in fact, opposing critiques BUT true and sensible nevertheless. What then do you do in this situation? What if ten lazy people tell you your stories have too much grammar, and just two tell you you should continue with it? Do you listen to the ten because 'ten people can't be wrong' or you just listen to the two much to your detriment? In fact, just how many can you listen to? See, I personally think this is just lame. Wouldn't identifying a strong someone you admire, making a mentor out of him and showing him/her your work achieve far better results than tagging everyone and telling them to deal with your work?
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Or, do you tag because you sincerely have a message to pass? Oh, well! Why am I asking? Wouldn't almost everyone say they tag because they sincerely have a message to pass across? Lol.



Written by Kennedy Akpoveta , an excellent writer and poet.