Essentially these community-oriented sites are large collections of links to (generally) good quality content (articles, images, video, etc) that has been submitted by ordinary internet users like you or I. Conceptually this is no different to the functions that most web browsers provide to save the URLs of pages that you find interesting so that you can find them again in the future. The only difference is that these links are stored online, so they can be:- viewed by the general internet population (unless you designate them private for some reason)
- retrieved from any computer with an internet connection
Characteristics of Social Bookmarking sites
There is a vast array of these sites, with new ones popping up all the time. With some variations, they are generally characterized by:- The ability for ordinary internet users to contribute links / content. Indeed the internet community is the life-blood of these sites; if no-one submitted links, they would cease to exist.
