I have mostly ignored the hype around facebook and myspace, but those sites, as well as sites like digg.com, reddit.com, and del.icio.us (which are called “social bookmarking” sites, I have gathered), have reached incredible popularity.
I have joined del.icio.us and digg.com and have been trying them out to see whether they are useful to me.
One note about the sites: I was disappointed when I went to digg.com and reddit.com because many of the links that become the most popular due to people’s votes are links to vulgar or very derogatory material.
In case you don’t know how they work, what happens is people might read an interesting story on a webpage, or a cool blog post, and they will then vote for that link, which sends their vote to the social bookmarking site and lets others go read about it. If they like it, they will also vote for it, and if a site gets enough votes, it will show up on the main page (of digg.com or the others), so that all people will see it.
Unfortunately, this naturally leads to people with twisted hearts voting for evil sites, and so those often rise to the top–kind of the worst of human nature coming out. But the idea is pretty cool, I think, and not all of the links voted for are bad, most are morally neutral I would say.
So, my question is: Do you use any of the sites I referenced?
If so, what do you like best about them, or how are they useful to you?


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