Stumbleupon is one of the most popular and easiest social networking website out there.

People make use of stumbleupon toolbar to bookmark the websites they come across by clicking the “i like it” button on the toolbar. I know you all know that very well.

But there are some important things in stumbleupon that you might not be noticed.

First of all it’s a social bookmarking website, so you can share your favourite bookmarks among your friends and can also make new friends.

Adding friends

Stumbleupon allows you to add any people as your friend. You can search for a name or email or you just visit www.stumbleupon.com main page where you can see on your right side a list of recent stumblers.

Browse the recent stumblers and add as many friends you can by clicking the “send friend request” on each stumbler’s page. But if you want to have more specific peoples that interest you then you can filter peoples.

Filtering Peoples

Click on any one of the main tags that are displayed on the header. For example “Lifestyle” .On the right you can see “People who like this” title and below all you can see “view more” link. Click that link and on this page you can see many options for searching peoples with their tags and interests. You can also filter peoples by city, state and country also.

Friend Requests

Do you accept your friend requests ? The same way you are adding friends by sending requests ,someone might have send you a friend requests. Unless you accept his/her friend request you are not friends. To do this go to” your home” and then click inbox and there click “friends request”. If you have any pending requests then it will be shown here .Unless you click the “i know personally“ button you will not be friends. So you have to check this frequently for any new friend requests.

Sharing made easy

The another most beautiful thing stumbleupon implemented in its new interface is the share icon. Wherever you see the thumbnail of any bookmark you can hover it and you can see the “share” icon. This is so cute that you can now easily share these bookmarks with your friends. Likewise you can also share others bookmarks.

Latest Visitors

Check for the latest visitor who visited your stumbleupon page by clicking on the “latest visitor” icon on the top right of the header.

Syndicating your reviews and blog entries with twitter

Do you know? You can easily update twitter status (if you have one twitter account) about your reviews on stumbleupon. Handy isn’t it. Its also easy do that. When adding your reviews on stumbleupon just click the “syndication option” below the review box and check the “Post to twitter” option. Update the twitter authentication if you are not logged in and allow stumbleupon to access to your twitter account.

Become a sponsored stumbler

If you like to take a full advantage of stumbleupon you have to become a sponsored member.
Where you can start your own group and you can also have ability to turn off Sponsored Stumbles.

To become a sponsored member in stumbleupon visit the below link.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/sponsors.php

Every sponsored member can see a little sponsor icon next to their nickname.

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