Facebook Reportedly Testing Out Profile Tags

One of LinkedIn’s features is the ability to add tags to your profile. For those unfamiliar, basically what this does is that it lets you create tags to help make searching for you easier. So if you identify yourself as an artist or a designer, you can tag yourself that way so that employers or clients can search for you easily.

Facebook does not have such a feature, or at least until now where according to a report from The Verge, the social network is apparently testing out a similar concept as you can see in the screenshot above. The tags appear to work the same way as LinkedIn’s tabs so if you’re already familiar with the feature, then this shouldn’t really be too steep of a learning curve.

Now if you were to surf on over to your profile and don’t see the option of adding tags, fret not. It would seem that for now, the tag feature is currently a test that Facebook is running at the moment. It also appears to be limited to New Zealand, although we can’t be sure if Facebook is trialling it out in other countries, but for now New Zealand seems to be the test market.

It is unclear if Facebook will roll it out as a permanent feature. It’s quite hard to tell since Facebook does conduct tests every now and then and there’s no guarantee that these features will make it to the final cut, but in the meantime what do you guys think of it? Is this something you’d like to see Facebook include in the future?

Tyler Lee
Categories: Web
Tags: Facebook