Advantage and Disadvantage of Social Bookmarking
Talking about Social Bookmarking. Social Bookmarking allow us to share our favorites, even from our own websites, and make them popular. Social bookmarking, sometimes, are the best way to introduce our articles to the world. But there’s a few things you should consider about social bookmarking.
Advantages
This system has several advantages over traditional automated resource location and classification software, such as search engine spiders. All tag-based classification of Internet resources (such as web sites) is done by human beings, who understand the content of the resource, as opposed to software which algorithmically attempts to determine the meaning of a resource. This provides for semantically classified tags, which are hard to find with contemporary search engines.
- There are drawbacks to such tag-based systems as well:
- No standard set of keywords (also known as controlled vocabulary),
- No standard for the structure of such tags (e.g. singular vs. plural, capitalization, etc.),
- Mis-tagging due to spelling errors,
- Tags that can have more than one meaning,
- Unclear tags due to synonym/antonym confusion,
- Highly unorthodox and ‘personalized’ tag schemas from some users, and
- No mechanism for users to indicate hierarchical relationships between tags
- Social bookmarking can be susceptible to corruption and collusion.
