Social Bookmarking – 2007
This graph show how people were sharing web pages in the year 2007. Google Bookmarks and delicious were the two most favorite destinations for bookmarking online content while a large number of Internet users also preferred saving pages into their local bookmarks or favorites.
Social Bookmarking – 2008
Habits changed in 2008 as social networks replaced social bookmarking sites.
Facebook, Digg, MySpace became the most preferred destinations for sharing content while delicious, Google Bookmarks and other "online bookmarking" services took a backseat.
Social Bookmarking – 2009
Enter 2009. Facebook is now the most popular site for sharing content followed by a distant Twitter. Surprisingly, more people now prefer to bookmark content on Yahoo! Bookmarks and Windows Live Favorites than Google or Delicious which dominated the scene in 2007.
And here the next 10 places where Internet users are posting content with the purpose of bookmarking or for sharing with their social contacts.
The sharing statistics for 2009 are courtesy Pat from AddToAny while the numbers for 2008 and 2007 were provided by ShareThis and AddThis respectively. All these companies provide some very awesome social sharing widgets for both blogs and regular sites.
While the report suggests that more people are using Facebook than email to share content on the Internet, I guess that may not be the case because not everyone feels comfortable sharing their email address with a widget so they probably use their own email client to share links of web pages with friends.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/social-bookmarking-statistics/9729/
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Reader Comments
The downside of sharing with Facebook is that it won’t reach to a larger audience as Facebook requires you to have an account and some friends to view shared links. So from a blogger’s point of view Facebook wont do much good to your website in terms of traffic :-)
Written by Debjit on 09.11.09
This is great stuff, but I think that the notion of the survey is limited because it only talks about social bookmarking and social networking. There are many other media categories – video being the most obvious – that are missing here.
youTube, 12 seconds for video
hubpages, wikipedia, knowl for article sharing
slideshare for powerpoint presentations
imeeme for music
I’d love to see it redone with the other categories broken out but also shown overall.
But good work and data appreciated muchly.
Written by Arthur Coleman on 09.11.09
Oh noes, somebody is using bad statistics again! Numbers and graphs lend so much credibility though, it’s too bad.
For each year, you have one single source of data, and you don’t even know whether that source is “clean” or not. Did any of those sharing sites strike a deal with ShareThis, AddThis, or AddToAny for preferential placement in their widget? Are these widgets placed on even dispersed and well-controlled sites? Do these sites tend towards liberal, conservative, tech-savvy, luddite, old, young?
Unless you actually run a controlled study, please don’t pass off this junk data as fact. At the very least, it’s confusing, and at the most, it’s dangerously subversive.
Bat Boy Jr. no likey. No likey at all.
Written by Bat Boy Jr. on 09.11.09
If I use Google Bookmarks, how is it that I am SHARING content? I am only keeping it for my reference, no?
Written by Ankush Sharma on 09.12.09
Useful statistics. Though it can’t be accurate, it gives a direction towards the current trend in terms of content sharing.
Written by Vijay on 09.14.09