In short, I love the photos and tagging. The rest of it? The stupid games, confusing crowded interface and errrr did I mention the stupid games? Nah, that's all junk...but the tagged photos though...that's something.

 My "concern" for facebook though is that it isn't really/supposedly about tagged photos is it?

 The concern being this, going forward we are going to be more and more concerned about where our photos are stored online and who has access to them. We may not want them to be "locked" into a particular "social networking" app we are playing with at any one time. Such an app should "request" access to my photos - not own them (and owning is something Facebook is desparate about as, without content, Facebook is nothing - hence there t&c debacle recently).

 This separation between aps and core personal content will be/is easily achieved given the fact that all good web apps need to have an API - a programmable interface which allows other applications to interact with it. Good web apps NEED a good API to interact with and NEED a good api to be interacted with - a web app is beyond a website.

 I've currently got the bulk of my online personal photos on http://picasaweb.google.com/joelhughes with the less family kinda stuff on http://flickr.com/joelhughes. Now it irks me to have these two images dumps to start with but it irks me more to upload to Facebook photos which are already on picaseweb - my software engineering background naturally recoils from such needless duplication!

 What I would prefer to do is to grant Facebook access to some of my centrally stored photos but grant them not just access to the raw photo but access to the meta data as well. I.e. grant them access to MY "people tags". Yes we are back to an online identity issue here but that's solveable - it has to be solveable as this data won't be internal in the next Facebook - it's out there somewhere - if you think that Facebook is the end game of social newtworking then you are plane wrong. Yes they have a gazillion users but online users are fickle.