Sunday, February 15, 2009

Social Bookmarking: New Ways to Connect with People

  Social bookmarking is a new way people can connect on the internet. Social bookmarking websites are places where a person can bookmark certain websites they enjoy. It is the practice of saving bookmarks to a private website and "tagging" them with keywords. Social bookmarking, basically, is a way for people to move their list of favorite sites from their hard drive out into the cloud by saving them online. People can search other people who have similar interests as they do. Social bookmarking websites are becoming more and more popular. They allow you to save bookmarks online categorize them with keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the favorite’s list of your browserBookmarking also is very helpful in saving time. By bookmarking you can search for certain topics and interests with a simple keyword. There are dozens social bookmark sites. Among the more well known are Digg, Delicious, Reddit, and StumbleUpon.

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