As with everything else, a couple of years ago the world began to move their bookmarks online with the invention of social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us and Yahoo’s MyWeb2. Since then, those of us that prefer to have our bookmarks private (like myself), now also have the option of using a service like Google Bookmarks, which conveniently uses your Google account.

With this process of moving everything online and the invention of tagging bookmarks to allow for easy and convenient organization, came the habit of bookmarking all sorts of things we normally wouldn’t if we were saving them in our browser. A quick browsing of the most popular bookmarks on a daily basis tends to show a lot of weird bookmarks like funny pictures, recaps of sporting events, and current events.

I personally prefer to use my bookmarks for guides and reference material that I will likely want to view again at some point in the future. I also use it to keep a few web-based games I play regularly, log in portals to my online financial data, porn I view regularly (just kidding!), and forums that I read regularly. I try to avoid adding things that won’t still be useful a week later. This helps me to avoid getting overwhelmed when I go to check my bookmarks and get flooded with a lot of outdated posts.

What do you use your web-based bookmark accounts for?