The concept of Social Bookmarking is to get your site indexed faster and to "insure" yourself that your content will be indexed first by the Search Engine because if someone else "steals" it and get's it indexed before yours does your site might get penalized for duplicate content.
Also, social signals (i.e comments, shares, likes, bookmarks) are now a part of the ranking algorithm of Google so if your site/content get's a lot of social signals you will (in theory) start ranking better.