[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by 1320Nation

You are completely wrong about facebook. You have to be hanging out with a select group to not see that facebook is very healthy and still going. Some business owners that I ran into before facebook came along would say I'm not a computer guy. I can send emails and thats about it. Now I see most everyone at least has a facebook page up and generating additional income to what they had before hand. And around 75% of the business owners that have been around and know a little about being online say that facebook brings in 80% of their internet sales.

If you don't wake up soon and pay attention to the hardcore facts you will be left behind in a hurry.

Integrating social media into your discussion forums, especially facebook, is an extremely wise move! I'm looking for someone right now to hire to integrate facebook into my site as much as possible. I have all the facebook developers access to everything, just don't have the time.

Anyway, everyone is getting involved with facebook. Even Google which owns chunks upon chunks of the internet is integrating stuff of theirs as well.

Btw, as I think about, facebook has its own forum app that you can setup now. It has a add on chat feature, plus other stuff. I try not draw any attention to that and will probably come back here in a few days and remove it from this post. But the thing here is you can't compete with "Free". And that is what facebook is, and so is all the software gang's out there.

I logged into my Instagram and Vimeo accounts a few hours ago which I had not done in around a month or more and sure enough they both a setup with integration with facebook.

The way I see it is vBulletin has about one chance to put something together soon, that of coarse is a fully integrated with social media. Positively get away from the high cost of what is charged for this board. Keep in mind those getting involved are doing it with no cost to the consumer. vB will as others do need to find a completely different way to make money from us. Btw I don't care about XenForo and the others out there because I don't have any money invested into them.

Using it and liking it are two different things.

People liked Friendster, then hated it and something else came along.
People loved MySpace, then hated and moved on.

Today, people use to love Facebook. Maybe they still like it, but the "love it" phase is over with and its moving toward the critize phase.

As I said... Using something and liking it does not always go hand in hand. Sometimes people stick with somethings because they're use to it . Or because others are there & ironically, they're there only because you're there.... and they're only needing a replacement in time.

I again point out the "firework" affect. It's bright, shinny, and draws a large croud, but as soon as it goes out, everyone goes home.