Comment about:  Social Media Terms Explained
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October 04, 2007

Social Bookmarking vs Social Networking

It's important to distinguish between bookmarking and networking
In your answer to the question "What are the Major Social Networks?" you list only social bookmarking sites.

I think it is important to differentiate between social bookmarking applications, like those you list, and social networking applications, like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Xing, etc. In a social networking application, at a minimum, the user's profile and links to "friends"  are stored - then other applications are delivered to take advantage of those connections, which may include social bookmarking or may not.

Thanks for the Q&A.

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