Well, it depends. Some people use bookmarks as favorites, and you want to keep your favorites compact so they're not messy, but other people use bookmarks as a

Well, it depends. Some people use bookmarks as favorites, and you want to keep your favorites compact so they're not messy, but other people use bookmarks as a research tool and bookmark everything they may want to refer to later, either personally or for a blogpost. Same reason people favorite tweets: not because they're oh-so-special, but because they want to keep them around. I have about ~350 links tagged journalism on Delicious, and I consider all of those to be a cut above the rest.