Of course. :)

Man, I can't wait for the day when Twitter dies, it's absolutely everything that I hate about Facebook and Myspace wrapped up into a neat little highschool trend.

Facebook is about keeping uptodate with friends, but lately they're trying to implement a forum/community type thing recently.

But they're not the same, forum communities changed my mind about internet and internet communities (for the most part lol)

my age im 31 - whats that got to do with not liking facebook ?

I hate MSN as well - prefer the old chat method of using Irc,does that make me old as well :)

Oh! lasto! :D

yeah u hate too many things :rolleyes:

Ok before I accept that I was totally wrong (this things doesn't happen often here :D although many ppl are wrong) before I make history, I can't accept the idea that men have created something 'eternal' :(

I still have my old BBS backed up in it's entirety, in the Telegard and Celerity versions. On 5.25 floppies, no less.

Major BBS?

http://bbslist.textfiles.com/508/oldschool.html

Hangar 18 was me. Hard to believe it was that long ago. :(

Why do you have to?

I haven't taken a single quiz on Facebook and usually ignore the gift applications (I think I have accepted three). However I can become a fan of different topics and be updated when there is news on those topics. I can keep in touch with family and friends that I don't get to see a lot due to distance or timing due to work, illness and other factors. It makes it easy for us to share pictures whether we use a service like Flickr, Picasa or Facebook itself. All can be tied into each other. Only have to visit the site a couple times of week because it will notify me if something important happens. We could all join a forum and do this but Facebook is a lot more convenient

On Twitter, I only follow people who post serious information. These include major sites like NPR (National Public Radio), BBC News, CNN News as well as informative blogs and sites on vBulletin, Wordpress, Drupal, etc... I let the people I follow point me towards articles that I might want to read. I don't even have to visit the website. If I find something that I think is interesting, then I forward it or retweet it and it automatically gets picked up by my personal blog and Facebook.

Forums on the other hand are great for getting support questions answered whether its software support, finding out information on the new Pokemon game, learning how to prune apricot trees and more. However Forums don't make a website anymore and you need to add more content and be up to date if you want to compete in your niche or are just starting out.

Though you can easily use Facebook, Twitter and all the other social networking site to promote your forums. You can use these promote them to people who would never otherwise find them because you rank 95th for gizmos and gadgets on Google. Facebook alone has over 200 million people. If you avoid it without even knowing what it is and think it is some teen-fad then your limiting the potential of your website. Promoting a forum is all about word of mouth and referral recognition. Social Networks are all about viral networking. Networking has been around as long as man-kind has done business. These sites just bring it online. It is not much different than going to a business luncheon in your city to meet new people and promote your ideas or going to a tradeshow/conference to do the same thing. Avoiding social networking though is like closing a lot of doors that could lead to opportunity. Or you could continue to fight against companies that throw tens of thousands at page ranking every month and have hundreds of new domains linking to their sites every month.

To put it into perspective, forwarding one good thread to Twitter with 100 followers can result in dozens of blog posts linking to your site drawing in audiences that you never knew you had.