JJB

Hi everyone
Could someone please explain what the icons under the posts mean?
'furl this post' what does furl mean please?
'digg this post' not too sure what that means either
and 'add post to delicious'???
Please excuse my ignorance
Thanks in advance

stone

I don't know, lol. I doubt anyone uses them. I think they are ways to link stuff to blogs or something?

yukonm

Hi JJB,
When I clicked on the icons, they were links to other sites. I hope someone else can answer as to why they are here.

Anna

Just move your cursor onto the post and it will give you a name for it.

I have no idea where they go or what they do, though.

firestorm090

I'd take it easy on that furling stuff, sounds dangerous.

As far as the digging, I did a lot of that while drinking, got myself in a real deep hole.

JJB

Thanks for that firestorm. A good laugh was really what i needed and did me the world of good. I was wondering if 'digg it' means yeah it's great or it's so bad let's bury it.But your interpretation is even better and i still can't stop laughing; is this another symptom of WD -hysterical laughter?

firestorm090

Humor makes wd so much easier, gotta laugh at ourselves sometimes!! You're doing great!

Dime

Hi JJB,

I never use them myself. It appears they are methods of social bookmarking. Wikipedia has an explanation that might help.

Social bookmarking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

These questions can be asked in the "Forum Help and Troubleshooting" section at the top of the forum.

Hope that helps!

Gypsy Feet

I like it when they are asked here, and our fearless forum leader 51anna has to scratch her head and shrug!!

((((anna))))

adore79

with all the good sites on the net and the many worthless sites, social bookmarking sites are where people rate different sites on how usefull/cool they are. I use Stumbleupon and everytime i do a google search i get a stumbleupon rating of each hit which lets me know how good the site is based on the opionions of others who have been there.

tellus

I've never heard of Furl. Huh. I use Digg, it's sort of a way of voting on websites. The more Diggs a site has, the higher its ranking is. Doesn't serve much use in a forum, though, I mostly use it for news articles. StumbleUpon works on a similar principle, I think. I've never used Technocrati or del.icio.us, but I'd assume they do as well.