bookmarking benefits

Continuing on with my previous blog on boomarking, I realized that what makes bookmarking so great is the social environment. Honestly, the reason I enjoy it so much is because I get to see what other sites people have found. Before I would use my bookmarking tool on my computer for important sites. That's why I was hesitant to set up a del.icio.us. account. But after class on Thursday, I found myself spending an hour just glancing through other peoples websites that they had bookmarked. One can tell a lot about a person by the websites they bookmark. For example, mine are mainly newspaper websites or sites regarding politics. Although, I do have facebook and both my student and hotmail sites bookmarked which demonstrates I also am a social person.

I even suggest to one of my groups in another class that we use this to help with the process of our group project. Because of del.icio.us, we can share different sites that we found for our final project. This way we can make sure that everyone is doing his/her own part and so that we all stay on the same page.