The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon hosts a segment called hashtags. Jimmy Fallon goes onto twitter and starts a hashtag in order to receive humorous stories from other users on twitter, all you need to do to send it to him is write your story and follow it up with the hashtag that Jimmy Fallon creates. From there Jimmy Fallon can then search through all the stories with ease thanks to the tagging system. To show you how big this community is, listen to the introduction of the segment – “within 20 minutes it was a world-wide trending topic”.
Jimmy Fallon
So, have folksonomies changed the way that we interact with each other? Yes, most definitely, it is such a big change that the inclusion of folksonomies can create a whole new community, one without restrictions of country boarders. Like we’ve seen on twitter, tagging is now a worldwide phenomenon and ideas are able to move freely from one place to another, like we’ve seen in Jimmy Fallons Hashtag segment on the tonight show. In fact the use of twitter and hashtags are so wide spread that a multitude of talk shows and opinion driven discussion shows have a live twitter feed on the screen so that the person watching the show from home can also have their say, like the example of QandA. And as the technology grows so too will the use of tagging in order to bring about new concepts such as those in my potential future career.