I signed up for a Delicious account a year or two ago, and imported all the bookmarks from my personal computer to it, to get me started. I decided that would be a good way to save my favorites in case something ever happened to my computer. Before Delicious, I had set up my Yahoo home page with my personal bookmarks, which worked in a similar, though somewhat less efficient way. I could access it from any computer where I could log in to my Yahoo account. Over time, I became less happy with my Yahoo home page, and eventually switched to a Google home page, so accessing the bookmarks there became even more cumbersome.
Importing my bookmarks was easy, and the default for importing them was to keep them private. I've gone through and marked many as public, but there are also some that I am happy to keep private, such as my links to my hairdresser, doctor's office and so on.
At this time, I have over 300 bookmarks listed on Delicious. Most of them relate to my interests in yarn, cycling, fan fiction and cooking. I've tried to organize the tags, so that I don't have ten different ways of tagging the same sort of thing. If I find that I have tagged something incorrectly, or misspelled a tag, it's quite easy to globally change the tags, or change the one that is incorrect. Sometimes I will bookmark a site, and find that a lot of other people have also bookmarked it (or tagged it). Then it can be fun to look and see what those folks have additionally found, and go exploring that way. I try not to do that too much, as it can be a big time-suck (as so many of these social sites tend to be.)
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