Appropriate Use of Tags and Categories

Back when I first started blogging, just before A/N sites were hugely popular and when Greymatter was the blogging software to use (does anyone even know what that is anymore?), I don’t remember Categories being so damn difficult.  You could pick one, (or maybe three, I can’t recall if that was GM or MovableType - isn’t that horrible?!), and your posts were sorted accordingly.

Now you can have an infinite number of not only categories, but now there are these new “tags” to deal with!

I’m not very good at orginazation.  I probably just am making it harder than it needs to be (that is actually one of my favorite things to do, by the way).  Write the post, give it a tag, a category, and there you go, right?

But then, are categories and tags supposed to overlap?  Can you put in “marketing” as a tag and a category?  What’s the difference between the two, anyway?  As far as I can tell with WordPress (where my mastery of the program is significantly less than it ever was, even when I was a n00b), they function almost exactly the same.  You click one or the other, and you get all the posts with that same word.

So why are there two of them?  Anyone?

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