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Most Popular Social Bookmarking Sites

With so many social bookmarking sites available today, it's often difficult for a newcomer to know which site is the best one to join. Many people become members of several social bookmarking sites so they can make comparisons and see which one they like the best. Not everyone wants to or has the time to do this, however.

Therefore, I have made a list of some of the most popular social bookmarking sites and features that each one has to offer. Keep in mind that there really isn't a "best" social bookmarking site; it's more finding the one that best meets your needs. With so many social bookmarking sites out there, it's almost impossible to review every one of them, which is why I'm discussing the features of some of the most popular.

Digg and Delicious are consistently right up there on top. Delicious offers importing and exporting of bookmarks, commenting, sharing bookmarks, searching site and uses tags to help users save their content. When it comes to organizing your bookmarks, Delicious can't be beat.

Digg is the most popular social bookmarking site when it comes to functionality, overall design and is ideal for meeting people and finding new sites. Readers vote on websites by "digging" them. Digg is popular also as a social news site, offering late breaking news stories in many categories.

StumbleUpon has been around for a while now but recently has gained in popularity among social bookmarking sites. Once you download the StumbleUpon toolbar, it's very easy to use. When you find a website you want to save, you click on the StumbleUpon icon on your toolbar, which happens to be a thumb up sign. If you see an article you do not like, you give it a thumb down.

Reddit is a social bookmarking site that uses a karma system to rank websites and stories. The votes that websites get affect their karma points, which determine how high or low the websites will be when searched. If you're looking for a simple site (it's definitely no frills) and one that caters to social news as well, Reddit just may be what you want.

Furl is a popular social bookmarking site that lets you save web pages exactly as they looked when they were saved, regardless of how many changes were made to the site. Furl will help find others that share your interests. When you find a site you want to save, you just hit the FURL it Fast option. Many state that Furl is similar to Delicious.

Fark is a social bookmarking site where you'll want to go I you're looking for funny stories. As far as a serious social bookmarking site, it's somewhat disorganized and not real useful but it is popular with users. The one thing that many users didn't like about Fark is that the Fark administrators are the ones that determine which stories will show up on their front page.

Social Bookmarking for Educational Purposes

Bookmarking is saving your favorite websites to your web browser where they're always available for viewing. Bookmarking is a very handy and convenient feature because the websites can be accessed at any time as long as you are on the computer where they've been saved. Unfortunately, they cannot be viewed if you're on a different computer unless you've used social bookmarking.

Social bookmarking allows you to view your websites on any computer as well as share them with others. Social bookmarking is used for many purposes, both personal and business. Social bookmarking is extremely helpful for educational purposes.

Social bookmarking organizes your websites in much the same way as a librarian organizes the books. Library books are organized and categorized by title and subject. Social bookmarking sites are stored on a social bookmarking site and categorized by tags or keywords. The tags give a description of what the website is about so viewers can find it easily.

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Instructors and teachers can use social bookmarking as a way to find what other teachers are using for on a specific top of study. With the use of tags, instructors can enter appropriate tags on the subject they're looking for and the most popular sites will show up in the search result. If they're looking for a specific research matter or references to a topic, they can also find them easily through social bookmarking.

Instructors that wish to share their reference lists and research with other colleagues also use social bookmarking. With online schools so popular today, the use of social bookmarking is at an all time high today.

Teachers also use social bookmarking as a way to provide their students with research material and study guides outside of the classroom. Computers and the internet are widely used today in all schools from kindergarten right through colleges. Teachers can add links to the social bookmarking sites where students can easily view them from their home, place of work or on their laptop.

All the students have to do is go onto the social bookmarking site, type in the appropriate tags and they have access to the website. The more the websites are viewed, the more they increase in popularity. The convenience of this is that when other teachers see these sites, they know that they are popular sites and ones that are used by other instructors and students.

This is the beauty of social bookmarking. The ability to save and share important and educational links allows the teaching staff to spend less time looking for new material and devote more time to the students in the classroom.