subject: Stumbleupon: An Example Of What Social Media Is To The Average Internet Surfer [print this page] Firefox has launched a nice little application known as StumbleUpon. It is a fine sample for what social media is and how it works. Social media is a way of communicating with relatives and friends, just as many other social networking sites. It is also a way to form and maintain connections with those who share like interests. When you and your friends for a site of interest according to the profile, you may bookmark it, share it with friends and review it. You may rank it so that the best ranked pages are the ones that you see when you surf the Web.
Installing the StumbleUpon app is very easy to complete. Although it is a product from Firefox, it interfaces smoothly with other applications and tools, especially Firefox tools. There are no difficulties with installing the tool and it only requires a few minutes for installation and activation. It is a one-click operation from the toolbar.
The proprietary toolbar takes you around the Internet, letting you know when there is something new for you to look at. You select categories when you do the installation. There are hundreds of choices where you may maintain a bookmark-like relationship. When others choose the same category you can form a social network link with the others. You can change, add or delete these subjects of interest any time you like.
Ratings are another task you can accomplish quickly and easily by clicking on the thumbs-up or thumbs-down symbols. This tells you whether or not most other viewers find the website helpful. Since only those who are signed up for this particular interest group are seeing and rating the website, it is like peers rating peers.
The functions available when using StumbleUpon are numerous and are user friendly. When you find websites that are applicable to your interest group, you can let others know. Adding and updating the friends list is simple. You can check the database for pages found by other users. The menu is intuitive and easy to use.
When you are part of a group with similar interests, helping each other with written reviews of sites of interest are helpful to everyone. Adding a review to a website that has already been discussed is a little more complicated than an original review. Either way, you can read both the web page and the reviews of the web page.
As an application, Firefox has a winner with StumbleUpon. For a relatively small use of space, it does many functions and does them well. If you like surfing the Web, this application will help you stay abreast of information in favorite topics.
You can depend upon the built in reliability of StumbleUpon. It is a good example of social media with a purpose. It's also a lot more. You can decide what social media is when you explore the capabilities of StumbleUpon.
