How Many Of You Use Social Groups Feature?

[edytwinky]

I was wondering, how many of you site owners use the Social Group feature?

I have had 3.7 and 3.8 for quite a while and have it turned off, I just can't find a reason to use them.

[BlueNinjaGo]

We have a few, they're turned on, never prove useful. Sometimes we'll create one, and it'll make sense, but no one remembers to look at them

[KTBleeding]

One of the most unnecessary myspace clone features introduced to vBulletin..

I'd never have a use for that, forum members rarely visit each others profiles when compared to a social networking site.. It really shouldn't have the focus that it currently has. vB really should have just stayed a forum, if you ask me.

[cheat-master30]

Exact same topic as vBulletin.com much? I use it, kind of, in that I just leave what's on by default active unless I feel like disabling it. It's fairly well used, at least from my experience.

(To the people who want vBulletin to only be a forum, someone said it perfectly at .com, the tagline was Instant COMMUNITY, not Instant FORUM).

[Talk-Pets]

We use the Social Group feature. Some groups die out pretty fast but others are very active and are used a lot.

We like the option

[RedeemedWarrior]

Originally Posted by KTBleeding

One of the most unnecessary myspace clone features introduced to vBulletin..

I'd never have a use for that, forum members rarely visit each others profiles when compared to a social networking site.. It really shouldn't have the focus that it currently has. vB really should have just stayed a forum, if you ask me.

I agree with social groups, however at my site profile's are used alot

as of right now i have 2240 Vistor messages left on my profile there

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Talk-Pets

We use the Social Group feature. Some groups die out pretty fast but others are very active and are used a lot.

We like the option

Same with us. They are on, but some just never take off and some have several members/messages. We have a Lounge for general discussion and I have found that the groups that were created by members who don't frequent our Lounge actually do better than the others. I think it's cuz the Lounge crew like to talk in the Lounge. The other members like having their own little section to talk.

[Paul M]

Dont use them at all, and no plans too.

[Oblivion Knight]

I use them at the moment, more as a test than anything..

My current member base come from 3 main communities;

• vBulletin (vb.com. vb.org, etc.)
• Xbox.com
• VGN (An old gaming site network)

It's quite nice to let these user groups have their own little private discussion area relative to these external sites.

[menj]

I just had vBulletin installed for my forum, so I haven't gone into this feature yet. However, I have seen it used (and use it myself) on other forums and find it exciting, so I am going to give it a shot for my forum and see how it goes.