forums vs facebook

[nick122590]

as I sit here bored going through all the forums Im on. I cant help but notice how down hill most of them went, I mean ctr has no activity at all. then you go on shitty facebook groups like the car spotter page and its blowing up. is this a sign? id really like to here what [MENTION=5]Mook[/MENTION] thinks about this.

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[Chester Copperpot]

There's a Facebook group for TCG.

 

[Mook]

Ive shared my fears on it quite a few times over the past year or so. FB is crushing the little guy (see: us). Its why I started a FB group. It gets minimal activity but its another means of getting the name and community out there.

But FB is definitely taking a TON of traffic away from small, more local forums. Its scary stuff

 

[Spivitz]

I'm not on fagbook, just here and the tbss forum

Car forums are better imo

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

so is it considered old school to visit a forum as opposed to FB ?
i don't use FB as a means of forum type information

 

[Mook]

To a certain degree, I think it is.

 

[nick122590]

so is it considered old school to visit a forum as opposed to FB ?
i don't use FB as a means of forum type information

I believe so. it seems all the new generation is sticking with facebook and not getting on forums. and a lot of the normal forum guys are fading away. ive been on tons of forums and this is by far my favorite and luckily the most active

 

[Mook]

Traffic will likely swing back up once the weather settles down...winter has been brutal for us.

 

[Jean Ralphio]

Fuck facebook

 

[AjL227]

I strongly dislike facebook, and do not have one.
Sure it may be nice to keep up with friends you don't see...but when the majority of your "friends" are just attention whores you could care less about with nothing interesting or intelligent to say...it's dead in the water.
If facebook was a forum, there would be a lot of people getting banned on a daily basis.

 

[DynaSlim]

I like facebook its awesome for creeping on people. I found out alot of people car set-ups and adresses from facebook

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

FB is a good to use as a back up to the forum for spreading certain information or reminders.

but I highly doubt you are going to get long winded replies with pictures to a specific thread on FB.

 

[Mook]

You'd be surprised.

 

[GoldPanther]

Oh man if its BS what you like to post then go to FB, if you are a car enthusiasts the go to car forums, that way you will leave a peace of history on your building threads or you will also leave some very good info that some people will always look for, remember that threads at forums never get deleted and the FB shit it's just BS coming and going. FB is easier to use cuz most of the people use it as a daily basis and forums some people hate to log in and are lazy, I guess.

I do like forums best I will definitely look how TCG FB look like... what's the name of the page?

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

as long as forums are still around, i will use them for what they are for.

 

[GoldPanther]

Me too

 

[Shibby50]

We will always have one advantage over fb.
Our NWS section.

 

[FrenchLicker]

Quality over quantity

 

[Dan00Hawk]

Facebook means my wife is more likely to see it. A forum means that she'll never stumble across it.

 

[b00sted]

so is it considered old school to visit a forum as opposed to FB ?
i don't use FB as a means of forum type information

I find Facebook groups much harder to navigate...Where a forum diplays 20+ thread titles on one page, Facebook displays the entire post plus some comments...So you have to weed through a ton of shit to find something you actually want to read.

Forums will eventually evolve...Just like the old BBSes from the dial-up days.

 

[Mook]

We really SHOULD upgrade to a newer version of VB but having to go through and redo EVERYTHING is not the least bit enticing

 

[blakbearddelite]

Eh, Facebook groups suck for forums. I'll continue to browse forums the old fashioned way and yell as people speed down my side street.

 

[willizm]

Fuck facebook

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[EmersonHart13]

I prefer forums but I do follow FB.

FB forums annoy me, totally falls into FPFQ

 

[ChrisRac]

Facebook absolutely crushed the Alaska forum I admin'd. And the new one that tried to replace us.

I hate FB groups since you can't search for topics and you can't moderate like you can a forum. I will always prefer a forum over FB.