Oh, *tags*. Not cut-tags. This is why I should actually pay attention to other people's answers.
I use tags for two reasons. First, I want to easily find a category of stuff, like, say, all of the times I've ranted about something political. Or whatever navel-gazing thing I'm finding worthy of my time. Maybe all the times that I said something schmoopy about my girlfriend. Whatever it is, and I want all those entries to come up so that I can scroll through them and look for something in particular, rather than have to click on a link that takes me to individual entries, as happens with the memories function.
Second, I want other people to be able to find certain entries easily as well, and have it all come up at once. The memories function is limited in terms of how you can define an entry, so sometimes it's better for someone to be able to look at the entries themselves. You might not know that you wanted to read a sugary-schmoopy RPS fic about James Marsters and Vincent Kartheiser, but now that the entry's sitting right in front of you amongst all of my other fics, maybe you'll give it a try.
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I use tags for two reasons. First, I want to easily find a category of stuff, like, say, all of the times I've ranted about something political. Or whatever navel-gazing thing I'm finding worthy of my time. Maybe all the times that I said something schmoopy about my girlfriend. Whatever it is, and I want all those entries to come up so that I can scroll through them and look for something in particular, rather than have to click on a link that takes me to individual entries, as happens with the memories function.
Second, I want other people to be able to find certain entries easily as well, and have it all come up at once. The memories function is limited in terms of how you can define an entry, so sometimes it's better for someone to be able to look at the entries themselves. You might not know that you wanted to read a sugary-schmoopy RPS fic about James Marsters and Vincent Kartheiser, but now that the entry's sitting right in front of you amongst all of my other fics, maybe you'll give it a try.