My New Soulmate

I can honestly say I have never heard of, much less ever considered, finding my “social bookmarking soulmate.” Basically, this is a person who has similar interests as me and illustrates these interests by tagging relevant articles on websites such as Digg or Delicious. While researching “confidence” on Digg.com, I found a “35-year-old dude from California” that calls himself “smindsrt,” and, for the first time in my life, I can say I found my bookmarking soulmate!

Not only does this “dude” tag articles about self-confidence, but he also bookmarks articles about social media, starting dance parties, and making better conversation (all of which are right up my alley).

He has been a member of Digg since 1995, and has been tagging articles since then, which means he has been keeping up with his membership. He has not tagged very many articles over the years, By “not very many” I mean less than 50 (which is still more than me).

He doesn’t usually comment on his own posts; he just posts them and waits for other people to “dig” them or comment on them. His tags are not organized at all, exactly the opposite. They are about random subjects, all done at random times.

Unlike most “soulmate” stories, I have never met him. I don’t even know his name! I only know that this man likes social issues, especially self-confidence, and bookmarks the things he finds on an internet site so that people like me can stumble across them.

While this love story might not start with “once upon a time” or end with “and they both lived happily ever after,” I have a found a new love – not with “smindsrt,” but with social bookmark stalking and trending. I liked to follow his train of thought and interests in each article he tagged, and it made me think about what the articles I tag say about me. Maybe I’ll just have to ask him sometime….