After registering with StumbleUpon, I tell it what topics I'm interested in and it comes up with sites that I might like. When I'm signed in, I can hit like or dislike and the software gets to know my preferences, as well as my vote going towards the overall rating from users. You can also comment on the pages on StumbleUpon's main site. Users can "Connect with Friends," and when I clicked on that area, StumbleUpon already knew some of my contacts on Facebook, which I found really creepy since I hadn't given it permission to access my account (at least not knowingly).
StumbleUpon is very easy to use and fun. I have found a bunch of cool websites that I never would have otherwise. Try this one: it's hilarious. http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
I will not be using this professionally; if I used this at work I would not get ANY work done, EVER. :D
I'm not planning on being part of the social part of the bookmarking tools, which makes the privacy issue nonexistent. When I find bookmarks that I want to share I email them or post them as links on Facebook, and I don't have so many bookmarks that I actually need a special place for them. I can use my bookmarks function just as easily, and I know what sites are what typically because I bookmark infrequently and only if I use a site daily or I can't remember the search term easily.
I do think that I will continue to use StumbleUpon; it'll be a fun thing to do while I'm chatting online with people and they're typing slowly.
Here's some zombification for ya'll, because I feel strongly that it's been too long since I included something about zombies on here.
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