Social Bookmarks

Links are as old as the Internet. Well, maybe not so much…

In the past, people would save their bookmarks onto their computer. They had links at work, links at home, and links written on scraps of paper from when they were surfing at an Internet cafe in Spain. Then if their computer crashed or the pieces of paper got wet, everything would be gone.

Then came social bookmarking. Now that many people spend more time in front of their computers than in real interaction, we have come up with ways to socialize virtually. There are the normal ones: emailing, chatting, blogs, dating (and socializing) sites and gaming. But now people are coming up with more creative ways to socialize. A few of these are by using bookmarks, music, pictures and videos.

Some of the many reasons why you may want to join the crowd and create your own social bookmarks are:

1. if you use multiple machines, you can easily keep track of important bookmarks.
   1. this is good for libraries because then you don’t have to create separate link lists on each computer. You can just create an account on one bookmarking site and collect the bookmarks in one place. Then you have one bookmark on each computer that leads to your on-line list.
2. Creating a list of links on your own website/blog can get lengthy and look sloppy. Many of the bookmark sites organize your links without fuss and they look tidy.
3. Its really easy to add links. Just click on the button you add to your Internet tool bar and add a description, some tags a category, and your done!
4. You can see what bookmarks other people have on similar topics.

~ by cathykyle on January 31, 2007.