Labels

WARNING! I wrote this post because I didn't want to get sucked in to the habit of writing life-altering pieces every night. See last nights piece on "origins" to alter your life. Do not expect your life to alter following the reading of tonight's piece.

As I wrote the title of this post, I thought people might get excited. "O! Another prying post into the heart and soul of species!" No, friends (and foes), I am not here to talk about generalizing, name-calling, or Newman's Own dressings. I'm here to question the purpose of blogger-beta's "labels."

I see the use on other sites. Search for keywords, find item quickly. Makes sense.

But here, blogger's already given us the fabulous "search this blog" featurette, which I adore and use to my heart's content. I have found in the past few weeks, that the use of labels just balloons an already busy reader with more useless text. The nice feature is that it's one-click searching, but it requires the author to reduce her complex and developed essay into a mere half dozen words or so? Uncalledfor!

I may or may not label my posts in the future. Do not be offended.