How to Use Social Bookmarking Tags
One of the biggest trends in surfing the web is organizing and sharing your favorite sites via a social bookmarking site (or "network") such as Technorati, Digg, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, and several others.
Access Your Bookmarks from Any Computer
Do you create bookmarks on your computer's browser so that you can always go back and look at your favorite sites? Social bookmarking is essentially the same thing, except that social bookmarking sites allow you to organize your favorite websites and articles online. A major advantage of this is that you can access your bookmarks from any computer that has an internet connection.
Meet, Share, Learn
One of the biggest reasons for the growing popularity of social bookmark networks is that, since your list of favorite websites is stored online, you can easily share it with your friends, families, and co-workers.
Many of these sites also allow you to join or create whole virtual communities of people with interests similar to yours. These communities can be a lot of fun because they allow you to connect with friends as well as meet new people who are often great resources for finding interesting news and websites on your favorite subjects.
Make The Online World a Better Place
Finally, social bookmarking sites are all the rage because they give you an opportunity to help make a difference in determining what kind of information will thrive on the Internet. In an Age where spam and low quality websites often run rampant, you can help your favorite websites grow and rise to the top by adding them to your favorite bookmarks and sharing them with others.
If you haven't joined any of these social bookmarking sites, you really should give them a try. It's simply the new — and better — way to surf the web.
Some Popular Social Bookmarking Networks
Here are some of Makeup Moxie's favorite social bookmarking sites and information about each one.
Technorati | Technorati has gained wide popularity for its ability to constantly monitor millions of blogs and rank them based on their popularity. This service is great for monitoring your favorite blog, discovering new blogs, and recommending or "tagging" blog posts for other readers.
StumbleUpon | Like its name suggests, this fun site allows you to "stumble upon" websites that other users have recommended as ones that you may find interesting based on your own personalized preferences. Think you've become addicted to surfing the web? Just wait 'til you download and try out the StumbleUpon toolbar!
Del.icio.us | This popular social bookmarking site allows you to more efficiently organize all of your favorite links by adding tags to them (so much better than the traditional method of creating bookmark folders!). Del.icio.us also has a bunch of cool features like the ability to create a wishlist of products from any commerce site on the web.
Digg | Self-described as "digital media democracy," Digg has become one of the most popular sites for recommending current news stories and discovering what others are reading. Digg also encourages discussion by allowing users to share their opinions and attach their own comments to stories that have been "dugg."
Take Social Bookmarking for a Test Drive
Ready to try out social bookmarking? If you'd like to start experiencing the web in a whole new way, go ahead and click one (or all!) of the icons below to begin.
Join as many networks as you want and please remember to tag MakeupMoxie.com using your social bookmark network account whenever you read an article or blog post that you find particularly interesting, useful, or entertaining. It's just one of the ways to let us know what you like, so that we can work to produce even more of the kind of content you enjoy most.
Just click a link below and follow the directions to sign up. Have fun and happy surfing!
Technorati
Stumble It!
Del.icio.us
Digg