take this thread for example you won't or seldom get thorough indepth discussions on twitter, facebook, googleplus etc like you get as standard on forum where the community come together and post their thoughts that don't consist of minimal words.
You have some valid points, here, regarding the conversations on social networking sites. I'm thinking this could be due to a couple reasons: 1.) It's easier to send a quick message than it is to create a thread with a title. 2.) It's faster to get a response. With SN, you direct a question, comment, etc. directly to a person. Not only is that person notified, but other people can participate, as well. What if, creating a thread gave you an option to address one or more users (like PC's only public)? They receive a notification and then check it out, as opposed to looking at a long list of What's New and picking only threads of interest.Agree with all you are saying, I do however observe quite a few people having very "forum" or "how do I do this..." convo's on Twitter
Sometimes I scratch my head at the convo's going on and wonder why they are not happening on Person A's forum, or Person B or indeed Software X's forum. I see some *cough* not Kier *cough* Main developer for a Forum software product spending more time and energy on all other forms of Social networking (expecially Twitter) than they ever do or did on their own forums.
I guess it's inevitable that people will spend more time on one medium or another and there will be that spill over of Pithy one liner on a forum, or conversely indepth "how to" convo on Twitter.
Forums are in danger there is no doubt about it, saddens me as I love forums.
Yeap, forums run by dictators likely won't last long, just like forums with tons of annoying popups and ads. Users will tolerate ads if they aren't too obstructive.haha probably not, I really don't envy those two their in boxes
I dunno what the answer is tbh, I still think Forums are the playground of choice for the more intelligent and more indepth conversations or discussions or debates. But clearly the more instant forms of communication have their appeal to a certain (very large) percentage of the online populous.
These are testing times for forum owners, and I think a lot of the problem has to do with how forums were run in the past, I have seen so many little dictators running their virtual banana republic's with an iron fist.. no wonder people say screw it and take to the Facebook hills tbh.
i use some forums starting with "what's new?" panel on top of the forum where I can see recent active topics.
My friend can't get on comp most of the time because his mom is busy on Cityville.Yeah... but.... I realised I was spending too much time on farmville, realised I had a problem and closed my account.
Yeah... but.... I realised I was spending too much time on farmville, realised I had a problem and closed my account.
You can disable them you know. When you get the notice in your stream go over to the right of the notice and an "X" will show while hovering; click the X and you can then select from the drop-down to ignore any future notices from that application.
