Social Bookmarking sites which started not many years ago have changed the face of communication. In the recent years, the way information is researched, stored and shared has undergone an awesome makeover.

Why would you need social bookmarking?

In the world of web, there is an ocean of information and research notes available at one click. When you want to research about something and you search for it, you could end up with hundreds of websites having useful information you can use. You would typically save each page or bookmark each link in your web browser for future reference. When you want to retrieve information back you would have to go through hundreds of bookmarked links and try to find what you were looking for.

Further, if you would like to share it with someone, you would have to typically email the link to them or the matter. If your computer was different from the one you use to work, it just gets more complicated.

Social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Netvous, Bluedot, simply etc, makes it easy for you to bookmark a webpage online by just right clicking the link and saving it to the social bookmarking site, by adding few tags which could help you identify this particular page. If you would like to share it, it is easy as sharing the tags given, and the other person gets access to your bookmarked sties as well as the date of bookmarking and vice versa.

There are a lot of options, regarding privacy, organising, and retrieving which you can customise it to your convenience. Welcome to the new age of online bookmarking, sharing and communication.