this may be silly but I am new what are tags?

United States
September 17, 2006 9:43pm CST
I just joined mylot today and I have been seeing tags everywhere and wonder what are tags and how do I use them?
3 responses
@karene (8)
• Canada
18 Sep 06
Tags are keywords help you organize and categorize your content, in this case your discussion. The more tags (keywords)you come up with for your posting, the more exposure you discussion will have.
@mai720 (327)
• United States
18 Sep 06
tags are what catagory it falls under
@HomerBundy (1325)
• United States
18 Sep 06
tags are used as sort of keywords/category the post falls under...like a a questions about cheating could fall under "relationships"... welcome to myLot