What is the difference between Social Networking and Social Bookmarking?

[aimhigh]

I just wanted to know the difference between the social Networking and social bookmarking.

[poksa]

As far as I know Social networking is related to social bookmarking, mean is more like the same...

[bogs]

that... its kinda like the same... its just some of them have some different features and approach...

[arturobraganza]

Different I guess, some social bookmarking sites are more on just bookmarking URLs from news, blogs, or any part of your page. Social networking sites are sites which not just bookmark your site, but also help you look for friends, add applications from youtube, imeem, or any other sites with widgets.

[John Scott]

Social bookmarking is attempting to manipulate your rankings on social bookmarking sites like del.icou.us

Social networking is creating relationships with others in your industry via forums, blog posting, etc.

[full house]

In my opinion social networking is similar to friendster and other sites that deals in creating friends and sharing your thoughts to others, while social bookmarkings are sites that has a niches that make it specific for a certain users. if you are involve in something or you like something, you can choose what social bookmarkings you want!

[reachpradeep]

social networking sites are like orkut, forums and blogs
soclial bookmarking is just bookmarking in your browser, but here you bookmarking online
its simple

[Avril]

Social bookmarking manage users to save web page that they want and share it in the certain network. Social networking is more on interacting relationship with the members of the community...

[corlock]

there are site that has a feature of bookmarking and networking at the same time, just like digg and stumbleupon...as what I know, social bookmarking are used to share a certain article or blog post to everyone registered on that site. for social networking, its like multiply or friendster, its simple as that...

[~DaRk-EyE~]

Most of the Social Bookmarking and Social Networking Sites have the same purpose of sharing and interacting...
But one things for sure, they can give us huge amount of traffic if use properly...

[poksa]

Originally Posted by John Scott

Social bookmarking is attempting to manipulate your rankings on social bookmarking sites like del.icou.us

Social networking is creating relationships with others in your industry via forums, blog posting, etc.

hey Sir, can you explain how does "Social bookmarking is attempting to manipulate your rankings on social bookmarking sites"...

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by poksa

hey Sir, can you explain how does "Social bookmarking is attempting to manipulate your rankings on social bookmarking sites"...

People bookmark their own pages on sites like http://del.icio.us/ in order to get their sites a more visible position.

[poksa]

Originally Posted by John Scott

People bookmark their own pages on sites like http://del.icio.us/ in order to get their sites a more visible position.

Do you mean Sir, they vote on their own post to make it visible?...

[aimhigh]

Thank you. I fully understand it now.

[Hafsoh]

social bookmarking enable us to look into good readers and track their information consumption while social networking it's been focused on people connecting to people that they already know.

[ezhel]

Social NetworkingThe programs allow users to interact and share data with other users. This computer-mediated communication has become very popular with social sites like MySpace and Facebook, media sites like Flickr and YouTube, commercial sites like Amazon and E-bay. Many of these programs share characteristics like open API's, service oriented (customizable), and the ability to upload (data, media).

Social BookmarkingsThe ability to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others ...

[anie_b]

Social bookmarking is the process of establishing a network among peers, friends, family and interested guests.

Social bookmarking provides a trail back to your social networking site. That process opens the map so the visitor can find their way directly to your business site.

[seoindia]

Social Networking websites are like Orkut, Hi5 and Myspace .... they site provide friends circle and profile building etc... whereas Social Bookmarking websites are like Digg.com .. they are for sharing good websites by bookmarking them..

BOTH are different from each other..

most of the comments are given by those who dont know the difference and are pretending to be expert in their field.

[coolguy27]

Originally Posted by aimhigh

I just wanted to know the difference between the social Networking and social bookmarking.

Social Networking: A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of relations, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, and friends etc.

In its simplest form, a social network is a map of all of the relevant ties between the nodes being studied. The existing social networking sites are fantastic as they allow sharing of content between 2 or more users.

Social Bookmarking: As the term denotes, bookmarking is nothing but storing our favorites at a particular place so that it is easy for us to look for the required information rather than waste our time searching for it. Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to store, classify, share and search Internet bookmarks. So, there are certain websites which help us in this concept like Delicious, Digg, Spurl and Magnolia...

[arnoldsmithh]

Social Bookmarking and Social Networking are very similar. In social bookmarking sites you can promote your site by sharing content. In social networking like facebook you can promote your site using fan pages and groups and discussion boards.