How often do you use forums? PHPbb lover? Myself I am registered at Digital-Point, Site-Point and a handful of niche forums. But is the day of the forum still relevant? Do we still have time for forums?

With the global hype of the blog system and the development of wordpress, blogger and the whole blog ideology perhaps forums will fade away and become another fall out software that worked well in its time. I doubt that will happen completely but I see numerous business’s placing more belief in blogging than in forum administration.

I suppose if you compare the two, blogging is a more self centered approach to the same issue. Blogging says ‘I am an expert and I am more interested in what I have to say’ or ‘I have something to give - come see’ whereas forums are intended to be more communal. So perhaps its in that, that we choose our preference. If we seek communal chatter we hit forums and if we seek expert advice we seek blog articles? This isn’t right - we don’t. But perhaps blogging allows bigger stars to be made, with a fine line between people that read and comment and bloggers the roles are emphasised?

I would say that forums are a mine of useful tips, they allow networking and communal discussion in a way that no blog system/blog network I have seen can do.

So I suppose we blog and forum post for differing reasons and results, and personally I will continue to do both. But if the whole world has a blog - who’s going to read them all?

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