When you are in a situation where you spend a lot of your time with the internet, doing web based research, chances are that your browser will not be sufficient for you.
There are times that we also browse from more than one computer where we store the bookmarks in the browsers.
Note that these bookmarks are counter productive.
You need to choose a tool that is right for you.
Social bookmarking is the right one.
It means storing the bookmarks online.
When they are online you tag them so that you can remember why you wanted to save them.
This is because some of them are very essential and you might really need them in the near future and missing them will really cost you.
The good thing about it is that you can also share then with others who might value your web surfing experiences.
If you want you can keep your bookmarks to yourself and no one will view them without your authorisation.
There are social bookmarking services which are good whereas others are not good for you.
Be careful when you choose them, to avoid situations that might turn out to be unpalatable.
The social bookmarking sites are very useful.
They categorise the contents of the web using an open process of tagging.
The outcome is a road map of the web which is based on the recommendation of the people who have travelled it extensively.
In most of the times, the information that you find that has been gathered by this services is like a wild or even sometimes referred to as a young sibling of the web directories.
This is not the case as of now since every person that surfs is a potential editor and has the power to categorise and recommend web sites.