SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES
These are sites that provide their users with a platform to save links to bookmarked webpages that they want to remember or share with other users. The bookmarks are usually public, but they can also be saved privately or shared only with specific people, groups, or networks. There are hundreds of dedicated social bookmarking sites in existence, each representing a specialized view of the World Wide Web. According to eBizMBA (http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-bookmarking-websites), as of May 2012 the most popular social bookmarking websites, based on the number of unique monthly visitors to each site, are Twitter (250 million), Digg (25.1 million), StumbleUpon (17.5 million), Reddit (16 million), Pinterest (15.5 ...
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