You have shared links before. Everyone has. Sharing links is easy. Just think about putting a URL into your status in Facebook, and then it creates that neat little link for you, without the unsightly URL text in there. That is sharing links.

But there is a new way. Sharing links just got easier. The newest wave of social media can be found on social bookmark sites. Social bookmarking is the term for just sharing links with your followers. No inappropriate pictures of your weekend, no ignorant status updates, no people being mean. Social bookmarking takes advantage of all the good that there is in social media, without providing an outlet for the bad.

There are several examples of social bookmarking out there right now, some that you may have actually been using without your even knowing it. Twitter, actually, can be considered social bookmarking. As can Reddit, and Pocket, and the progenitor of the popularity of social bookmarking, Pinterest.

As Pinterest is certainly one of the mo Read More