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Social Media vs discussion forum

by ConsistentImprovement
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Are discussion forums becoming replaced by social media (esp Facebook)? I'm looking at how the internet has changed over the last say 7 years. Has putting a discussion forum on a website become any less relevant? I'm finding oddly little about discussion forums online, though I do realize that they need massive amounts of traffic that most aspiring internet marketers cannot acquire.

Thoughts?
#discussion #facebook #forum #media #social
  • Profile picture of the author RealCasher
    Forums will never die and fb can't replace them.
    The problem is, every single good topic has already a lot of forums.. that's the real problem: competition
    you can't stand it out if you put just another xyz forum, you have to come with something creative with quality unique content.
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  • Profile picture of the author joshzyerburg
    I think Warrior Forum is the best example that "no". Take a niche, for example American Football, there are people who'd rather subscribe to a page publishing news about that topic on Facebook, others who'd rather get tweets about that, others who would like to discuss it over a forum, and another group of people who would rather watch videos about it on YouTube and get in a fight in comments

    The way I see it, is that it's complementary.
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    Forums are best way for gathering people in same niche, sharing knowledge and experience. You don't need massive traffic for monetizing - e.g: 10K+ visitors / mo. You only need targeted traffic for monetizing and getting better conversion rate.
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  • Profile picture of the author Slade556
    I don't think forums will disappear anytime soon! Social media did manage to change the online world a lot in the last few years, but forums are still very relevant and facebook or other platforms could never totally replace them
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  • Profile picture of the author benetom
    MylifeB is a social network and it also contains a discussion forum.
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