Are you keen to share any Web information with a friend? Did you find a website very interesting and want your friends to see it? What you need is social bookmarking. This is nothing but tagging a definite website and making it available for others (whoever you want) to see. If you have ever sent a link through email or through any networking site, you have done social bookmarking!
It is a convenient way of sharing Web contents without having to actually send files and folders which might be pretty time consuming. Rather, the process of social bookmarking enables you to send just the source of information. For instance, if you want to send a song to someone, it might take hours if you actually send a song file. Instead simply send the link of the site from where you have downloaded it, and your purpose is served in a jiffy!
How can Social Bookmarking be Beneficial to You?
Apart from sending and sharing links, social bookmarking can also help you in a fast and effective Web search. It narrows down the options based on the popularity and number of clicks on a website, and hence makes it easier for you to zero in on the site that you want to see. Suppose you want to check out sites on Rap music . A normal search will give you numerous results. It s a pain to go through each of them and look for relevant information. On the other hand, if you go for a social bookmarking site, it will probably throw up the sites in a descending order of the number of votes they have got. So, you will know the opinion of the other surfers and go for the one with the maximum votes.
The feature of a social bookmarking site that is being referred to here is the tags. These can be attached to the site links containing important and relevant information about it.
How Are the Tags in Social Bookmarking Helpful?
Tags help in inserting valuable comments about the site in question. These are important as these supply preliminary information on the site. It can be a gist of its contents, it can be feedback or it can be simply votes. The tags give you a clear idea of what you can expect from the site. When you are sending a link to your friend, you may add a tag saying why you want him/her to see it. Much in the same way, tags help you to decide whether you want to visit a site or not. It helps you to be updated about the latest information on various sites. Let s say one of your friends has bookmarked a site and wants you to see it. If he/she has added a tag you will know beforehand what the site contains.
These are also called metadata. Social bookmarking sites are being increasingly used nowadays as faster search engines as these enlist only those sites that are top on the preferred list of the surfers, either tagged or voted.
Thus, social bookmarking is an efficient method to share and receive website information. This makes Web surfing faster, easier and much more convenient!
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