Knowing The Variations Between Social Networking and Bookmarking

By Nick Layton

Many web users are confused between social networking and social bookmarking. A very simple way of differentiating between the two is that social networking allows you to build a web community and chat with others while bookmarking permits you to create and manage links that are crucial.

Social Networking will permit interplay with various folk from all over the world. It helps you to build social and business contacts through chatrooms, discussions, comments and so on. Bookmarking from an alternative perspective is not a direct interaction with people. It is just a way in which you can build on your traffic numbers to the site. It allows original content on your website to be bookmarked on a site like Reddit or Twitter and share links that are of common interest to you and this invites your viewers to see the most recent developments on your page. Bookmarking has its merit of networking because it gives weight-age to the content as a way to secure monetary gains.

Networking from a different perspective could be for only social means. It could be called as a Fast-Friend finder or a site that can be employed to get you a good build- up for your book-marking site. Social Networking gives you the liberty to express your feelings and keep in touch with others but Bookmarking does neither unless you make a conscious effort to be agreeable with your users. Bookmarking is popular in the western nations and has an edge thanks to the finances over the Networking Websites.

Popular networking newssites include Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo talks for example. Famous book-marking sites include Digg, Reddit, heavenly, etc. It is to be recalled that some sites like Facebook and Twitter perform the twin functions of networking and networking and bookmarking on the same site. In the Trustworthiness area, the bookmarking site is more popular re generating income through the extra traffic while in the social arena the networking sites definitely are popular.

Tagging is the main feature of a bookmarking website. You are able to add good reports to attract a good number of folk to your site. In networking there aren't any invites but you need to use the networking site to share your bookmarks efficiently.

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