Labeling Yourself

If I don't feel like writing up an entire profile, or responding to a question online (or in person for that matter), I sometimes wish I could just check a box, use an emoticon, or drag and drop a description - a label. Labels are an important part of our culture. Whether it be in your filing cabinet, on your turkey sandwich bag, or in the form of describing a subculture (i.e. punk, hipster, hippie), labels are used every day. Labels have now become integrated into our web experience in a positive and convenient way as well, not just for bullying or self-indentity. In a way, however, it does serve self-identification. On Facebook, I can just start to type a word in the "interests" category of my profile, and the word will pop up, spelled correctly and accompanied by a nice picture, which I can then drag and drop into my profile. This same kind of labeling takes place on PLM, but in a much more important scope - medical conditions.