What are Social Bookmarks?
Social Bookmarking is a method for internet users to store; organize; search; and manage bookmarks of web pages on the internet with the help of metadata.
In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share with others. These bookmarks are usually public, but can be saved privately, shared with specific people or groups of people, shared inside only certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.
As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks; the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers; emailing of bookmarks; web annotation; and groups of other social network features.
So what does all that mean, in English please?
Have you ever emailed a friend or family member and sent them a link to a website you thought they might find interesting? If so, you have participated in social bookmarking!
What makes social bookmarking social?
Social bookmarking is a method of saving and storing online information or web pages for future reference. Rather than adding web pages to your 'Favorites' menu in your web browser, you can bookmark them using a social bookmarking site for future access.
Social bookmarking occurs when users share their bookmarked web pages via social bookmarking communities. When you share, for instance, your personal blog posts through social bookmarking, you can increase traffic to your blog. Alternatively, when you view other users' bookmarks, you can find new blogs to read, new post ideas, new conversations to start, new communities to join for further networking and more.
Benefits to bookmarking vs. using the Favorites menu in your web browser
Bookmarking allows you to access your saved web pages from any computer that has access to the internet since it doesn't rely on information stored on your computer's hard drive as your Favorites menu does.
Not only can you save your favorite websites and send them to your friends, but you can also look at what other people have found interesting enough to tag. Most social bookmarking sites allow you to browse through the items based on most popular, recently added, or belonging to a certain category like shopping, technology, politics, blogging, news, sports, etc.
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