I asked the same question about a year ago when I saw the drain that my board suffered and openly asked my members if I should just do away with it and we move to Facebook. It's not worth the price of the server plus the URL if no one's there to enjoy it. My members wanted to stay so where we are. I don't think that Facebook is killing forums, but they do offer, beyond the social networking thing, is the ability to multi level their game system. I asked about incorporating those types of games on vBulletin with no response.
Facebook is the current trend. Trends come and go and it too will go the way of Myspace. We said the same thing about Friendster before that and the Asian Avenue-owned social forums before that. There's always some new big thing to take its place, but we need to stay competitive and offer the average poster something different to hold their attention...
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