A New Social Bookmarking Site For Making Friends Online

Online, September 23, 2009 (Newswire.com) - "Social Bookmarking" to some who are new-fangled to the internet world, it may sound something fanciful that they might not recognize what it is. However, having staying in the web long enough, you've heard that term time and again - "social bookmarking" and wondered what it is. Well, by plain definition, "social bookmarking" is a brand new concept, it's a web 2.0 wonder, where internet users jointly gather resources on the web in the form of bookmarks and share, categorize, arrange them benefiting each other.

But think about it: Have you ever e-mailed a friend or family member and sent them a link to a website you thought they might find worthy of note? If so, you have participated in social bookmarking. So now you can briefly understand what is social bookmarking? Simply say, it is an case of tagging a website and save it for later re-visiting. The difference with this kind of saving as compared to saving them to your web browser, it that you are saving them completely to the web. And, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends.

So there is a sample model of social bookmarking, and not only can you save your favorite websites and send them to your friends, but you can also look at what other people have found interesting enough to tag. Most social bookmarking sites allow you to browse through the items based on most popular, recently added, or belonging to a certain category like shopping, technology, politics, blogging, news, sports, etc. Because many social bookmarking sites display recently added lists and popular links, you can both stay current and see relevant information. You can also see which of your favourite links earns the most votes and mark it as your best choice.

Of course when probing for relevant information, you can do it in search engine but sometimes the results are enormously huge, therefore it is like searching for that needle in a haystack, whereas in social bookmarking, you can quickly narrow down the items to what you are looking for. You no longer need to page through thousands of results to find a needle in a haystack. Now, you can simply go to a social bookmarking site, choose the category or tag that matches your interest, and find the most popular websites.

So who are the Popular Bookmarking Sites? As in any category there are hundreds of websites out there that does the job fairly good. But there are only a few that are popular. Some of them are Digg.com, Delicious.com, Reddit, Newsvine etc.

So why do people use social bookmarking tools from these sites? Of course the major objective is to save interesting website information for later use and share it with others. But in the new web 2.0 times people put social bookmarking sites to more uses such as community building, traffic generation and link building.

In case of community building, here is newbie social bookmarking site www.MettaBlog.com, which may not have far-fetched interface, but is earnest in making friends online through this simple-to-use social bookmarking tool.