Social Bookmarking Soulmates

Alas I’m free! Never more will I have to write in Spanish, with my mind working overtime to translate every word that I call forward onto the paper, no! The words can flow freely now like a damn that has succumbed to the relentless pressure, hahahaha….well…at least until my next Spanish exam and mini essay, but in the meantime, I will take full advantage of my current situation by bringing you yet another informative post by yours truly, Stewie Griffin. Now, considering the fact that Valentine’s Day has come and gone, I was unfortunately unable to provide you with any advice in regards to what to do and what not to do around that special someone, that is unless you’d like to bookmark it and refer to it next year. If this is the case, feel free to drop me a comment or email and I’ll happily provide you with all the tips and tricks required to just that. In the meantime, I have something special that may interest those who’d like to meet people that share similar interests, yet at the same time aren’t exactly the most social butterflies out there. Ladies and gentleman, I give you….Social Bookmarking Soul Mates.

So what’s up with Social Bookmarking Soul Mates? Sounds kinda creepy and bit stalkerish, but have no fear, in time it just might end up growing on you. The way it works is you log onto a social bookmarking site like Digg, Delicious, or Furl and begin looking up specific tags or bookmarks that cater to your interests like baseball, politics, fishing, whatever, you get my point. Then, once you find what you’re looking for, you look to see who posted that specific article or web page. From here you can click on their name and search around their profile to see what other interests they have. This, my friends, is where the magic happens. Although subtle at first, your pulse begins to quicken as you begin to realize how many articles on Deep Sea Marlin Fishing they’ve come across. Your pupils begin to dilate as you see how similar both your points of views are on the war overseas. You begin to feel that they just might be the one and in a leap of faith you….decide to leave them a comment saying how cool they are that their into _____ because so are you and in the future you’ll be keeping an eye on their profile to see what kinds of things they come across, and that they should also follow yours as well.

Ok, so I’ll admit it’s not the most romantic thing one can do during Valentine’s Day, but for those other 364 (365 during leap year) days, a tool like this could prove to be very useful when researching projects. Ahhh see? You knew sooner or later I was gonna tie it back to how it could be applied to blogging, I couldn’t help it. With something like this, you could say goodbye to spending hours searching media outlets for specific articles and instead, streamline your interests by setting up specific tags and bookmarking articles for future references. One person I came across with just a few minutes of browsing was a man by the name of “Ozonethegreat206”. On his profile, his articles were neatly organized by way of tags. Each specific tag harbored 1-10 articles on that specific topic, making it very convenient to find the articles I found interesting. I also saw other interests that he had such as how to take online guitar lessons and even tips on how to increase comments posted on your blog. Overall, he seemed like a pretty cool person and I would definitely look him up if I needed any more articles on feminism in the media.