Using a Social Bookmarking Service

When you bookmark sites in the traditional manner, you limit your access. Sure you can use your list of bookmarks on your home computer, but what about anywhere else? On the flipside, when you use a social bookmarking service, your immediate bookmark access is just a few mouse clicks away on any computer with an internet connection.

Bookmarking using your browser also limits the way you can organize your files. The organization options are few and sometimes buggy. A bookmarking service gives you complete organizational control. Create folders, move them around, rename, repeat… it’s a breeze. Bookmark organizing has been revolutionized.

Perhaps one of the biggest, most annoying disadvantages of bookmarking the old way is the fact that everything is stored on your computer. Why is that annoying? Because if anything happens to your computer, there goes all of your bookmarks. All it takes is one little virus and you’ve lost years of hard work. A service that provides you with social bookmarking will allow you to gather and store all of your bookmarks online. So if your computer crashes, you don’t even have to think twice about your bookmarks. They’ll be there in cyberspace waiting patiently for you to return once your computer is back up and running.

Social bookmarking services may also be accessed by your internet ready phone. With more and more users turning to their cell phones for their main source of web surfing, this quality could be most beneficial. Traditional bookmarking is difficult to use on your small cell phone screen—if you can use it at all.

Do you live on Facebook? Are you addicted to Twitter and spend your entire day firing out tweets? Or maybe you still subscribe to the original social media gurus, MySpace. Whatever the case, a social bookmarking company can help you there too. They facilitate bookmark sharing by including tools that simplify the process.

Want to keep your bookmarks private? You can do that too. While bookmarks are available from any computer, you have complete control over what is shared and what can only be seen by you. That way you can rest easy, knowing that your personal data is not compromised. It’s for your eyes only.

Bookmarks available to the public are available to be voted on. By voting and visiting sites, popularity is ranked. This allows you to find the most captivating sites for each category. And you don’t even have to be a member of the bookmarking service to impact site ratings.

A reliable social bookmarking provider will also look for user feedback. They will provide a contact link by which you can submit any ideas you have that could make the service better. No idea is too small. They value customer opinions. The ease of contact is also useful for reporting any bugs or problems found along the way; although you’ll experience very few problems, if any.

A social bookmarking service can completely revolutionize the way you bookmark sites. They help you find quality websites based on user ratings, as well as save them online. This grants you access from any location at any time. They also give you the power to arrange your bookmarks in whatever way works best for you. It’s a service people are finding they can’t live without.