Social Bookmarking
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Social bookmarking is a term that has become well known for its ability to give others the viewing opportunities of other websites. When you click on any type of web icon to save a website to your favorites list, it keeps it for your viewing only on your computer. With a social book marking icon, it send the particular address to a social book marking site. This site is designed for all viewers of the site to view the particular website saved. There are some social books marking sites that will allow their users to vote or rate a saved site by how they like it. In turn, when a particular site gets enough popular votes from a high amount of users, it will be promoted to the front or top of the site list as needing to be viewed. There are many different type of social book marking sites available. The one that strikes most people are the ones that offer news articles or stories. These seem to be of interest to a lot of viewers.
Social bookmarking was started back in 1996 and has taken off in popularity since then. The popularity of these sites is mainly due to the social interest that the sites offer. You can save your favorite sites by category or within a certain niche and others can view it by whatever interests they have in that particular category. The need for knowledge is compounded into one place. It allows users to have many different venues to explore and without hours of searching the internet for themselves. These social book marking sites have become very competitive with one another in the past few years. There were only a few and now they are out there everywhere. I guess sharing is a good thing and everyone wants in on it.