Social Bookmarking

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Social bookmarking was first developed in 1996. It was a way to keep track of all the websites you found interesting or of use. Because there are so many websites out there that you have searched and found useful, someone came up with the idea to help you keep track of all these websites in an orderly fashion. When you find a website that you like or want to use in the future, you save it in a “folder” on the internet by clicking “tag”. This then saves it in your folder, but it also organizes it for you by letting you at key words about the page to help you search for it later. What makes this type of bookmarking useful is that it is not just available to you. It is social, meaning anybody in a social group can look up the websites you’ve saved to help them. This becomes very useful to those who use the internet quite frequently to research various things. They can trust the search of a colleague and look at the websites they have already bookmarked. It is also useful for teachers who often search the internet for the same things such as lessons. Once a teacher has saved these in their folder, they never have to search the internet for them again. Now all the teachers in his social group can have access to the same websites that he uses for his class.