Social Bookmarking

In order to talk about my experiences with Social Bookmarking, I believe it is prudent that I first talk about my experiences with electronic bookmarking in general.  I began using the bookmarking feature while doing web searches a number of years ago.  If I found a site that was interest or relevant to the topic (personal, professional or educational), I would click bookmark, and bookmark it.  If there was a bookmark I wanted to share with someone, I would go to my list of bookmarks and send the link to whoever I was sharing the site with.  Recently (the past year or so), I learned that I could link my bookmarks between my differing devices using my Microsoft account.  This was great until I recently found out the hard way that when I delete a bookmark on one device, it deleted that bookmark on all of the devices (or at least in my experience).  With this class (and an experience in another class), I am more apt to use Social Bookmarking instead of bookmarking site on my local desktop.  Social Bookmarking has definite advantages such as the ability to share your bookmarks as a “social commodity” (something or someone that is useful or valued).  Additionally, social bookmarks are saved and stored offsite, which means that if your local desktop crashes or you accidentally delete your bookmark (as I have), you bookmarks are saved on another source.  I will be using Social Bookmarking extensively from now on.