Third Party Facebook Forums App

Vodkaholic said:
I think this is bad news for us...
Way too many facebook users.
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That's my point. It's not so much the fact it's another new forum on the scene, more the amount of FB users that will take the offer up of using one of them. A billion facebook users reported not that long ago by the BBC News is a hell of a lot of people.
 
mrGTB said:
That's my point. It's not so much the fact it's another new forum on the scene, more the amount of FB users that will take the offer up of using one of them.
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Huh your point? I was replying to OP ;)
But to reply to what you just said... Yup I agree :cry:
 
Looks very very poor.

Can't even upload an image, I agree that it's not something that FB have done, otherwise they would have integrated it with their photo upload service.
 
mrGTB said:
That's my point. It's not so much the fact it's another new forum on the scene, more the amount of FB users that will take the offer up of using one of them. A billion facebook users reported not that long ago by the BBC News is a hell of a lot of people.
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Who cares, it will be just a billion more worthless forums that Google will not index and few will participate on.

Example, the billions of splogs that Google deindexed long ago !!!
 
mrGTB said:
I do feel this is yet another nail in the coffin by Facebook for other forums owners not using their services. How can you compete with this now? Free forums offered by FB to it's billions of users. Your going to start seeing the Web flooded with FB forums shortly making things much harder all-round.
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But that's the thing--they're not by Facebook. It's a third-party app.
 
Trombones13 said:
But that's the thing--they're not by Facebook. It's a third-party app.
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That doesn't make much difference. If you start using their forums, all your friends will still get an alert. Same if you post something. Friends will check it out. There is no signup process. So its bound to go viral.
 
Yeah, I bet Larry and Sergey are shaking in their shoes since this forum app came out, now Google will let us all start forums on Blogger !!!

Sell Google stock now, Facebook is taking over the internet !!!

Bill Gates should let the pile of Gold bullion he has fall on top of him and end it all now before the major embarrassment of this hits home !!

LOL !!!!
 
Alfa1 said:
That doesn't make much difference. If you start using their forums, all your friends will still get an alert. Same if you post something. Friends will check it out. There is no signup process. So its bound to go viral.
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Why? If a person starts a forum on Facebook and they make a post on it, do friends in their FB list get alerts linking them back to those forum posts made? Also, can anyone join these FB forums, or are they just limited for facebook users only?
 
Alfa1 said:
That doesn't make much difference. If you start using their forums, all your friends will still get an alert. Same if you post something. Friends will check it out. There is no signup process. So its bound to go viral.
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Alright everyone, close your forums. Facebook has us all beat! :p

If Facebook had such a large impact as you're making it seem, they would've knocked out social communities a long time ago. Still, even if Facebook itself decided to make a forum system of its own, it really wouldn't succeed in terms of returning members or quality content for a variety of reasons. Considering how much emphasis is placed on friends and your social circle, I don't see how this would fit into Facebook's approach.

These forums might have a lot of activity, but is there an actual point to it? Just seems like a huge playground for spam and abuse, and more than likely that's all it will become and from glancing around some threads that's already happening. I see no reason why forum communities as it stands should fear this, because in the end if people want quality information and discussions, they know where to go. These forums are resulting in more or less off-topic discussions that will easily be knocked off course, especially if there's not a team to manage it all with a large of a base as Facebook. There's nothing solid that will keep people coming back.
 
I m not worried about this app.

But generally speaking, I would think it makes more sense to create a FB-app (I am not talking about a Forum-app) than starting a forum from scratch......
 
Anyone involved in forums for long enough will have witnessed the rise (and subsequent fall) of many "forum killers."

We're still here, growing our communities and watching the next pretender take to the stage...service your community properly and you have nothing to worry about. Fact.
 
Onimua said:
Alright everyone, close your forums. Facebook has us all beat! :p

If Facebook had such a large impact as you're making it seem, they would've knocked out social communities a long time ago. Still, even if Facebook itself decided to make a forum system of its own, it really wouldn't succeed in terms of returning members or quality content for a variety of reasons. Considering how much emphasis is placed on friends and your social circle, I don't see how this would fit into Facebook's approach.

These forums might have a lot of activity, but is there an actual point to it? Just seems like a huge playground for spam and abuse, and more than likely that's all it will become and from glancing around some threads that's already happening. I see no reason why forum communities as it stands should fear this, because in the end if people want quality information and discussions, they know where to go. These forums are resulting in more or less off-topic discussions that will easily be knocked off course, especially if there's not a team to manage it all with a large of a base as Facebook. There's nothing solid that will keep people coming back.
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Would you say Twitter is quality discussion, no it's not. Yet, I bet 90% of people on this forum use it including yourself I see in your forum signature. In fact most people I see in Twitter I know run forums, spend more time twittering away all day than posting anything on their own communities. What does that say? My point being this, sometimes things you think might not work, as you rightly point out above. Actually do work, and work very well indeed. You can't write something off like this just because it won't cover serious forum discussion and is more a "Friends Circle" type thing.

Twitter broke the mould on "short chit chat" becoming a huge success story, over long-winded forum discussion. Most of you forum owners have proven that fact, you spend more time posting on Twitter.
 
I could see this helping more than hurting forums. If people use forums on Facebook, they'll actual realize what a forum is and will likely join sites they've found while searching. Plus, I doubt anyone would prefer to use some random Facebook Forum App over an established forum. With XenForo, we can use Facebook connect to quicken the registration process too. It doesn't take much more time than installing the App on Facebook.
 
mrGTB said:
Would you say Twitter is quality discussion, no it's not. Yet, I bet 90% of people on this forum use it including yourself I see in your forum signature. In fact most people I see in Twitter I know run forums, spend more time twittering away all day than posting anything on their own communities. What does that say? My point being this, sometimes things you think might not work, as you rightly point out above. Actually do work, and work very well indeed. You can't write something off like this just because it won't cover serious forum discussion and is more a "Friends Circle" type thing.

Twitter broke the mould on "short chit chat" becoming a huge success story, over long-winded forum discussion. Most of you forum owners have proven that fact, you spend more time posting on Twitter.
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I would encourage you to read a blog entry I wrote a few weeks ago about Twitter and its value. It's a lot more than just "short chit chat," as you put it, and, if used correctly, can be used to gain attention to you(r site/forum/ideas).
 
Please tell me how many third party apps (outside I guess farmville and games like that) you use or see used on facebook? It may I just block them all but I see basically none. Bunch of people freaking out over another niche app that will never be installed by most users. If facebook really thought it was something that would take off they would have their own solution.
 
LOL, you got that right, a forum on Facebook will be like a forum any where else, you will still have to actively manage it or it will be machine gun spammed and no one will be interested in reading or posting in it.

It takes work to run forums, no matter if they are free or paid.
 

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