What Is Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a process for Net users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves are not shared, merely bookmarks that reference them. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves are not shared, merely bookmarks that reference them. Descriptions may be added to these bookmarks in the kind of metadata, so users may understand the content of the resource without first needing to download it for themselves.