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Originally Posted by Transverse Styles

A lot of social mediums, like facebook, have forums

They do, absolutely.. and I don't use facebook, but I imagine that the forums aren't the main focus that drives the site by any means.. and I wouldn't be surprised if sites like Facebook deprecate their forums over time.

As you said, "social" sites have many other ways of discussing topics, and right now, forums seem to be coming off as "old news" to a lot of people who are putting sites up.

I don't know percentage statistics or anything.. I'm just going off of what I have seen with my own eyes here.

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Originally Posted by budatalk

I think that whatever decline forums had to face, they already faced it. I don't foresee any major setback for forums.

The biggest slap forums got worldwide is the start of social networking websites. But I think now things got stable.

Blogs became strong, but they did not pose that much of a danger to forums.

But you don't see a future for anything different than Social Networking and blogs? As I stated earlier, the internet is very young. Anything new can happen.. HTML, CSS, and any programming language can and does get replaced by some new technology..

Think, ten years ago forums and message board didn't even exist on the internet. Neither did community user systems of any sort. They're all young and they're all evolving. Ten years from now there could be so many things done differently and ran differently.. it's crazy.

Saying that you think forums have declined as much as they ever will is, in my opinion, completely ignorant. You're not looking at a big picture here.