Wondering what this symbol/image means?:
This is known as social bookmarking icon. Bookmarking has reached a whole new level of organizing your favorite sites. Social bookmarking allows you to keep all your bookmarks in one organized area, viewable from any computer (with the internet), and you get to share your favorite bookmarks with other people.
Why Would You Desire to Share Bookmarks?
There are many reason to share:
- If you like it, then it is almost guaranteed that others will too.
- By sharing, you are promoting that site. When you promote a site, you help it to grow and give that site more resources to make the site even better.
- The more people that share the same site link, the more visible it is to others. You are helping to provide value to many people. Every single link you share through social bookmarking helps everyone involved.
- You can connect to millions of people who have the same interests as you, which means you are connected to the best of the best sites on the internet through every genre of your interest.
There are tons of social bookmarking sites, in order to get the most out of it, I would suggest you register to the popular ones. The two top popular ones that I favor are Digg and StumbleUpon.
To start your new online experience of social bookmarking, I would suggest you goto one of your favorite articles on this site (if you are not sure then goto the main blog page,which is constantly being updated with new articles, the home page of the site, or you can find a list of every article on this site here) and click on the ShareThis and choose a bookmark. You will be directed to that specific site, where you will be asked to categorize the bookmark (with some other optional options), then asked to register in order to submit.
I am sure you will find it worthwhile. StumbleUpon is my top personal favorite, since you have the option to add a StumbleUpon toolbar, with a button that randomly selects/ directs you to the most popular sites of the category you select. I have found some very interesting and helpful Self Improvement (as they categorize it) sites through that method.
