The data sharing mediums have long been aiding us at sharing a large amount of information, be it images, documents to links etc and email has been the most vital of the modern methods. Similar has been the case with sharing interesting stories that users find across the web and here too emailing has always stood out.
But with time and with an expansion in the Web Tree, there have been numerous methods that have grown quite rapidly and the online social networks play a pretty important part and surprisingly Facebook is the second most popular method of sharing; behind email.
According to Digital Inspirations Social bookmarking sites have by large accelerated as major bookmarking and sharing tools over the web. The stats reveal that Facebook and Digg turn out to be the most favorite methods (of course after email) for sharing. The trend shows that users prefer using these social networking sites as a tool for bookmarking rather than those that have been purpose built (e.g. Reditt with 4%).
The comparison was provided by ShareThis and it was poles apart compared to what was shown by AddThis. The most major being that email wasn’t included as a part of sharing tools on the web and it had these networks showing a pretty low percentage, around 2.7%. Which one’s credibility is to be taken into account is pretty obvious, and the current report brings a pretty big boost to social networks role in sharing (specially Facebook).
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