>I like labels. I like being White. I like being a woman. I like being a mother. I am proud of all these things. They are part of what define me as a person.
Tags are a good way to classify data sets and objects in the IT world.
And that's because they work in the real world too!
I was quoting cherry, but I agree with her.
Your existence depends on your surroundings, not just internals like behaviour and ideals.
In the end, external systems with impose benefits and drawbacks on you because you will be tagged, or labelled.
This is because humans have an inbuilt need to classify and rank things, and that permeates the systems they build.