What are the advantages of online discussion forums as compared to big social media websites?

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

i think it is really a shame that people abandoned the idea of a simple and welcoming online discussion forums..

i believe it might be one of the reasons for the decline in quality in our world..

 

[Andy M.]

A site like this one is great if you are in to cooking. Social media is better if you have a short attention span and want a machine to choose your reading material for you.

 

[thymeless]

Social media tends to be one-to-many with many having little say. info flows mostly one way.i find this more personality driven than information driven.

Forums tend more to many-to-many exchange with a more equal give and take. information tends to be of higher quality, less noise about off topic things. But sadly off topic noise is increasing in forums too,

 

[grumpyoldman]

less noise about off topic things. But sadly off topic noise is increasing in forums too,

 

[taxlady]

A site like this one is great if you are in to cooking. Social media is better if you have a short attention span and want a machine to choose your reading material for you.

Yeah, to me, the part I dislike most about stuff like Facebook, is the algorithms deciding what I should read. I really preferred LiveJournal, back in the day. I could make lists of the people and communities whose posts I wanted to see.

 

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

when i use the X website i use it many times chronologically with a special app called squawker.. and for youtube.. newpipe..

there is no much competition and quality in social media.. or almost always..

 

[HeyItsSara]

I really liked message boards. Facebook and Instagram are fun too. X has really gone downhill though.

 

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

if message boards were more alive there was a lot of competition between many small websites on free speech rather than just a few big tech companies that rule almost everything

 

[BAPyessir6]

I personally feel that (say I ask a cooking question on a large social media site) I usually get massively conflicting information, most of which is from people who don't actually know what they're talking about.

Here however, I can be sure that the information is sound, not to mention that most everyone has usually the same opinion (for like methods of cooking or how to cook things, not personal taste) so that helps bolster the trust of this site.

Compare that with like, say, orangeddit, and someone tells me to cook a steak by "flushing it down the toilet" and this is the top, most liked answer. (I was asking what unconventional methods there are to cooking a steak besides the usual sear, oven, sous vid/reverse sear, and grill).

 

[jennyema]

I personally feel that (say I ask a cooking question on a large social media site) I usually get massively conflicting information, most of which is from people who don't actually know what they're talking about.

Here however, I can be sure that the information is sound, not to mention that most everyone has usually the same opinion (for like methods of cooking or how to cook things, not personal taste) so that helps bolster the trust of this site.

Compare that with like, say, orangeddit, and someone tells me to cook a steak by "flushing it down the toilet" and this is the top, most liked answer. (I was asking what unconventional methods there are to cooking a steak besides the usual sear, oven, sous vid/reverse sear, and grill).

I agree %1000 with what BAP says

 

[Andy M.]

One has to know what the purpose of each site is. Facebook, etc. are not sites for expert advice on a specific topic. They're for chit chat.

 

[The Ghan]

Forums are controlled to a certain extent - all other so called social media is not. Regardless of what THEY would have you believe - anyone can get onto into farcebook, twiter, tik tok etc etc etc