What determines the structure of a folksonomy and why? The code, the content or the social process?

Before determining the structure of the Folksonomy, I should first define it. Folksonomy is a system of categorization that enables users to manage and create tags of their content.

Today, Folksonomy is wildly used as a form of collaborative tagging in social networks and in contents. Clearly, Folksonomy makes our lives easier for us by making things less time consuming and more efficient. This system of categorization allows us to find what we're looking much faster by allowing users to "tag" their content or social process. I see this as a form of Web 3.0 innovation since the introduction of "tagging" brings more meaning to the word in the way of semantics. I believe the social process determines the key structure in Folksonomy. The whole point of the internet was to create a new powerful form of communication which was in the end to communicate with other individuals directly. Content indirectly communicates with other people by sharing information. Our social needs are the key motivation that drove people to create such powerful forms of communication. The word "folk" means people or a form of it and indicates that Folksonomy's foundation structure can be derived from social process themselves. The term folk indicates information is being passed directly to another individual by the means of a social process. Clearly, social processes determines the key structure of Folksonomy since it was used to pass down information long before any powerful communication was developed.

In terms of globalization, Folksonomy helps us understand it better by realizing that it is occurring much faster due to the quicker access of information and findings whether it is for content or social needs. Folksonomy is another factor of globalization, we may not be in a global village but helps gets us closer through social networking which can help develop this village by gathering users to enter such village. Inevitably, all users will unify into a single networks and may one day achieve a global village within the network.