
Originally Posted by
universal4
I am not sure why people keep wanting to draw a distinction between social media and forums.
A forum is where people post stuff, people can read stuff and people can reply to stuff posted.
A social media site is where people post stuff, people can read stuff and people can reply to stuff posted.
But many absolutely refuse to call forums social media.
And yet almost any discussion of, or explanation of a social media site, a forum will match.
In my opinion Facebook is nothing but a forum that offers a few different features, and the media gave it a new name to create more buzz, it seemed to have stuck.
Twitter, as one example is quite different, in the scope as well as functionality and way in which the media is distributed, but if you group facebook and twitter together, certainly forums fit within the same category as they existed first, and have much longer experience distributing the media people are being social about.
In fact forums are easier to use, are more organized, and much easier to find the kind of information one might be looking for on specific topics.
Rick
Universal4