Social bookmarking is a method by which internet users mark the references of websites.
They create links; they manage, share and organize bookmarks of web resources.
Once you have marked, then you can add descriptions to that bookmark.
This enables other users to easily understand the main content of that resource without downloading it.
It has been very useful in many ways; let's begin from a simple example.
If you are watching any video on any website, let's say YouTube.
com, and you really liked that video and you want to watch it again and again.
Then create a bookmark of that page and that bookmark will be saved on your start up Internet page.
You could view that video again and again by simply clicking on that bookmark.
This will save you from searching that video again and again each time.
People often use the same technique when they are searching for a particular event photos on the Internet and they want to save the picture of a celebrity in a particular outfit.
Here bookmarking helps a lot.
In bookmarking system users save links to web pages that they want to share or remember.
These bookmarks are usually public.
Everybody can view it chronologically through tags, category or if they are a part of a particular network.
You can share the pages of your favorite or useful websites with your friends in this way.
Later you could add other information to it time by time in the form of a metadata.
These bookmarks also show the information of the users who have bookmarked them.
Bookmarks have been very useful to the librarians also.
It is an easy way for them to provide a list of informative links in the form of patrons to the students.
Many of the websites that are not viewable by the users much can be highlighted by bookmarking them.
In search engines, the bookmarked websites are ranked on the top.
Therefore while looking for a required keyword or a phrase, the internet users easily access to the websites that are bookmarked and find the useful information there.
Social bookmarking is now becoming more useful in promoting business.
The internet users can rank and store websites, blogs, articles, videos and other types of website content.
This can be used to promote a home business website and increases the site's traffic.