Favorites Bookmarks Usage Patterns
Notes:
- The purpose of this question is to begin to understand what methods people use to manage their personal Web information via favorites/bookmarks. David Abrams of the University of Toronto originally developed this question, which was first included into the Sixth Survey.
- As one might expect with the slight increase in the number of bookmarks/favorites being stored by users since the Sixth Survey, users in the Seventh Survey report minor increases in overall bookmark usage behaviors. As with the Sixth Survey, nearly all users (85.92%) create new entries, with 69.61% deleting entries and 61.53% rearranging entries. More than half of the users (61.94%) create folders, with 45.86% creating sub-folders (folders within folders). A fair number of users change the titles of their entries (47.36%) though not may users annotate entries (17.61%). Only 4.94% claim not to use this facility of the browser.
- Males engage in significantly more favorite/bookmark activities than females. The baby boomers, 25-50 yr. olds, which have more items in their bookmarks, also tend to utilize more aspects of favorite/bookmark functionality.
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