Forums; social media or no?

[SilentStone]

Do you consider forum pages to be in the same category as social media? Obviously there are differences, however they feel the same to me. You post your thoughts and opinions, you make up your profile, you can privately chat with other members.
What do you guys think?

[Digimon_Sommelier]

It is a form of social media. There is even media that can be posted while we're chatting. Nifty but forums aren't what they were before. Scratch that. Forum traffic has slowed tremendously with the rise of other social media platforms. Sux, really.

[hvs9g8]

To some extent, they do share similarities. But social media platforms are more universal, whereas forums are not. I think that's why forums are dying out now.

[vProdigyl]

I think social media has some things that are similiar to social media, but foruns is somothing more especific, in social media you can create your own profile and talk about a topic, but there's also exist another pages of another things, but at foruns you used to talk just about one topic. In game foruns you'll probably mainly talk about games

[Clayton_n]

This is as close as I generally get to social media

[PictureGuy]

I think social media has some things that are similiar to social media. . . .

I disagree. Social media is nothing like social media.

Just kidding.

[Clayton_n]

On the other hand I'm not in favor of the government monitoring or limiting social media. That's for parents to do at best.