How Delicious saves me from myself

I have been using Delicious for several years. It has been a been so helpful for me because I am a very serendipitous learner. In other words, I am easily distracted when I am searching for one thing and I see something else that looks interesting. Delicious saves me from myself. I can wander off for a moment when I see something interesting, bookmark it for looking at later, and get back to the original task at hand. Having the bookmarking tools right in my Firefox browser really makes this easy.
I have not really used Delicious for social networking though, just for my own personal convenience. So for 23things this week, I decided to experiment with that part of it. I also had never created a bundle, and that looked very useful. And, I figured it would be a good excuse to do some weeding of my bookmarks.
A couple hours later, here’s what I had accomplished. I had deleted several broken links and links to things I was no longer interested in or events that were past (like Blues Weekend 2007). I had created some tag bundles, putting together under one bundle: cataloging, librarycataloging, digital_cataloging, dewey, dewey_decimal_quiz, and cataloging_cultural_objects. I had also socialized by looking at other people’s Delicious accounts who had tagged some of the same sites as me. I found quite a few useful things to distract me, including a new Firefox add-on, a new blog to add to my Google Reader, and a new recipe for sweet potato fries!