Social Bookmarks

Keep or remove on site?

[shallow]

Are placing icons/links for social bookmarking sites like Google, Digg, Delicious, etc. a waste of space on web pages? I just don't get the need for them yet see them on many websites. I have them on my site but am thinking of removing them. But are there compelling reasons not to do so? Thank you.

[celgins]

I think this is the type question each webmaster/website-owner has to ask himself/herself.

For a while, you could find social bookmarking links on hundreds of sites. It seems the fad has slowly started to fade these days.

I think the only reason for keeping them (in my opinion) would be to build more inbound links and establish some user loyalty.