Is facebook killing forums?!

[AuroraStorm]

Your contest is great and I love your ribbons...

[taylorpiano]

thanks that was my idea. The previous owner never kept track of the wins. I figured out how to use vB to add ribbons to their profiles that you see show up in the forum posts.
I also created the simple code link that places a ribbon under their photo within Photopost
http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/m...he-bridge.html

The other way I use FB, is to see if new users are spammers. There have been a lot of times that i search new users email addresses on FB and find them. I at least know they are legit and can usually tell if they are interested in photography. I found one person that was spamming away all over facebook, but their new account on our site looked legit. Spammers are getting smarter and signing up manually now.

[8thos]

Okay I got NinjaPost installed. It was really easy. Hopefully I'll get Facebook like activity on that site.

You know that saying 'If you can't beat em, join em!' http://fireside.the8thlegion.com/

[Alfa1]

Ninjapost is very interesting. Especially for a new startup. They already have more than a bit that vbulletin admins can be jealous of.

[BirdOPrey5]

I think we need to start being weary how many links we post back to our forums on Facebook...

I'm hearing from friends Facebook has started blocking links back to their blogs- no reason given- presumably because they posted it too many times.

I googled, didn't find much but found this person complaining too:
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/tech...92944-28489277

I think it's becoming a new policy... they don't want people leaving facebook for forums or blogs...

This could mean WAR.

[DNN]

Have you ever tried using a 3rd party app to promote your forum on Facebook?

[BirdOPrey5]

not personally.

[8thos]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Ninjapost is very interesting. Especially for a new startup. They already have more than a bit that vbulletin admins can be jealous of.

I can't get anyone to post on it though lol

It's gonna take some time. Everyone is used to vbulletin.

[Alfa1]

The new facebookforums app on facebook is interesting.

http://apps.facebook.com/facebook_forums/

[rhino56]

Originally Posted by onehost

I hate to say, but what do you have to offer that I can not find on the
top 5 big forums? forums are a saturated market, everyone and
their grandmother is trying to start a forum about the same
topics you can find on the top biggest forums...

that is what everyone else is having a hard time...

they made it first to the top...

everyone else did not....

you are right to a point, people are going to have their favi
forums that they hang on, and unless you can offer them
something better, then they will continue to hang where
they have most likely been hanging for years...

and not everyone likes evil facebook...

I am not a fan of facebook either, never have been...

If your forum is not making it, then it is not because of
facebook, it is because of what you are not doing right....

My thoughts exactly. I see facebook as helping forums, with the like button it provides incoming links that others may have never seen. If a forum is about blah blah blah what i did today faceboom may be a nicer place for that, but the type of forum im on have a ton of useful information. Like this forum, i don't see many people asking how to fix the header or something like that on facebook lol