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northlondonriderz	2010-04-30 11:39 GMT \| #1
	has anyone who runs a club noticed a drop in active members since facebook came on the scene. there seems to be a lot of debates going on how facebook is destroying community forums. what's your views on it i say facebook has it's good and bad points
nuckfan15	2010-05-01 00:35 GMT \| #2
	In all honesty....who cares? A community administrator should be targeting a specific group of people with a specific interest. If you have run into problems keeping users, I would generally say it is because your forum really is not interesting enough. There are of popular forums ( run by phpBB and other software ) directed at a certain group of people that are just as busy if not busier then ever. If you forum is just a General Chat website, and doesn't involve specific content, then I would agree with your post. But keep it interesting!
devppl	2010-05-01 13:09 GMT \| #3
	I have a couple of boards in the 'general chat area', and haven't seen any less traffic, maybe it would've been higher if there were no facebook, who knows...
darth_wong	2010-05-03 18:27 GMT \| #4
	northlondonriderz wrote:has anyone who runs a club noticed a drop in active members since facebook came on the scene. there seems to be a lot of debates going on how facebook is destroying community forums. what's your views on it i say facebook has it's good and bad points Facebook is more based around networks of people than subjects of discussion, while forums are based more on subjects of discussion than networks of people. Each has its niche. If you try to use Facebook as a forum for discussion of a topic, you run into the problem that it encourages incredibly superficial discussion. It's the last place you want to post a long thorough discussion of something.
gisfreak	2010-05-04 14:58 GMT \| #5
	they have different purpose. so i dont think that FB will cause less traffic to forum. its depend how admin maintaining their forum for me, i hate FB
markus32	2010-05-05 14:42 GMT \| #6
	As for me I prefer forums.
ryan1918dotcom	2010-05-06 04:37 GMT \| #7
	Facebook is nothing like a forum, they both have there ups and downs, and features.. If someone likes a forum they will always use it, facebook will be the biggest site in the world and I don't see it ever changing.. Well 2nd site in the world, I know they will surpass google in a few years if they keep expanding.
tom	2010-05-06 18:02 GMT \| #8
	ryan1918dotcom wrote:facebook will be the biggest site in the world and I don't see it ever changing.. Some people said similar things about MySpace back in the days when it was popular, but look at MySpace now. Now it's almost seen as a joke that MySpace could have reached such a pinnacle, ever since Facebook surfaced in popularity. While many may think that Facebook is going to be the last of the major social networking websites, let's not forget how the past has played out. The Internet is always evolving and changing in different ways, and I'm sure we will continue to see significant changes in the coming years, especially with regard to social networking sites such as Facebook.
ryan1918dotcom	2010-05-08 08:59 GMT \| #9
	whoever makes the new idea people will come, facebook i believe isn't going anywhere for a long time, there is too much usage for it to die or anyone else to take it over, It's worth BILLIONS, they demolished myspace, they are peaking a few million users, facebook is hitting 30+ million users daily, and over 500,000 accounts, not even 10% of myspace.
shadow_of_nobody	2010-05-08 22:42 GMT \| #10
	Personally, I resent all of those kinds of 'social networking' websites. I understand the concept, but I still dislike them greatly. However, they, and forums, will always have their own roles, and people will always have their own preferences.

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