What is keeping you on forums in the social media age?

[JoshC.]

Late to the conversation, but kinda backs up my point.

I'm not as active on forums as I'd like to be in fairness. But their organisation and very nature means that you can follow conversations, news and discussions, and contribute when you want/can. Social media is very much "here and now", and rarely goes beyond a day or two of conversation.

Social media has it's place - I enjoy the fun tweets I see sometimes, for example. But then it can be too intense, or cheap jokes where people aren't interested in actually understanding what's going on.

Social media has its breaking news, or posting of videos, but I'd much rather come to a forum, see a simple (or in depth!) written breakdown of what's happening, plus people's opinions. Social media has fallen into the 'me me me' and 'overly positive' trap, as others have said, and it's just tiring.

 

[zazobo]

Totally agree. Plus, I feel like anyone who can be arsed to go on a forum is likely to have opinions I care about (with some actual experience and knowledge) rather than social media guff which any lay person can distribute.

 

[Will]

Not having to condense my opinion to 140 characters, discussions conveniently grouped together... and there's very few sexbots.

 

[Flash Shift]

Forums have actual discussion for one thing. Another is that you start to get a feel for who is who, and while you don't necessarily know people exactly, you're aware of who they are at least and it feels more like a community.

Nowadays AI is ****ing ruining all social media. I only have Facebook anyway, but literally everything is written by AI now. I used to think Facebook was pretty cringe back in the day but dear god I actually miss the inane posts from people I know! Not my own though, my old posts are cringe