"More than a bunch of letters"
Tags are more usual and common than we think. I believe everyone has tagged someone at least once in his/her life, but it is totally unfair for me. How dare you sum up an entire person to a single word? How dare we? A person is more than just "ugly", or "boring": there is one world for each person that surrounds us, one amazing, endless world full of stuff we would have never even imagined.
As always, there are two dimensions in this tagging thing: the bad and the "good".
The bad one consists on bullying, mostly. Look at those hundreds of movies with teenagers involved and the quarterback calling the main female character fat or ugly, if not worse things. In real life there is a lot of that, and unfortunately anti-bullying campaigns don't seem to progress on their purpose.
And then, there's the "good" one. It is more dangerous, because it's about people saying you are talented or smart. Apparently there is nothing wrong with being praised... apparently. The problem is when people put their expectations on the smart one, because if this person ends up being wrong or messing it up, the others will blame her or feel disappointed. And as these people's success is taken for granted, nobody will appreciate it whenever it happens.
If you had to carry one of these, what would that be: hater's insults or high expectations?
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