I’m quickly noticing that my blog will cover a lot of topics that don’t seem to have anything to do with my site, LovetheLimelight.com. But I don’t care, blogging has to be fun too, not just business.
I’ve been exploring other online options to get my site out there in the Internet social sphere, and decided it was time to get on the social bookmarking bandwagon. Social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, Reddit, digg, and Technorati essentially work like the bookmarks option in your browser, only your bookmarks are saved on their site and you can share them with other site members by the use of “tags,” like keywords, to describe the site you’re bookmarking.
Now, a lot of people seem to like these sites. They’re popular with the people reading political blogs with the elections coming up and they’re a “hip” thing to do (you’d think us young people used that word more than we actually do). But I’m going to be honest with all of you. I think they’re a pain in the neck. Now I’ll put them on my site because I need all the marketing help I can get, but having signed up for an account on many of these sites and and tested them out, I think they take a lot more time than necessary. I use Firefox as an internet browser and on it, I have around a hundred bookmarked pages organized into folders, as well as an all important bookmarks toolbar right above my Google search bar. Frankly, I think that’s all I need. When I bookmark something through (insert generic third-party bookmarking site here), I am taken away from the site I liked well enough to bookmark and dropped rudely at the bookmarking site, where I then have to sit and brainstorm descriptive tags or a “quick” summary to label this site that I liked. Now the process becomes not so much a “bookmark” as a full-on, in-depth summary of the site. Why do I have to go through all that? I honestly don’t know. So I’ll promote LovetheLimelight.com through them, but as for my personal use, I’ll stick with my old-school bookmarks.
~Lindsey
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