Social Networking Sites vs Forums

The title says everything.

My Opinion:

Social Netwoking Sites

> Sucks.
> There is nothing other than making friends.
> Waste of time, you cant learn anything.
> Wont get chance to show off ur skills.

Forums (BB)

> We can learn and make as well as friends.
> Get our problems solved.
> Can show off your skills and creativity.
> Fun

Verdict: Forums Rocks!

@gigacore, i completely agree with you :grin:

Forumming rocks

T

No fight at all- Social networking is just about wasting time while you learn a lot visiting forums

Social networking SUCKS.
Its for all the dumb people who want to waste time. If somebody wants to chat, then why dont they use some Instant messengers like yahoo or gtalk?

Forums ROCK.
Im addicted to digit forum

Its just depends upon on how you use the both.
If you use social networks for networking, it rocks.
If you spend most of the time in chit chat section of a forum, it won't help any.

So stop blaming social networking sites and forums if they can't do something you want. Blame yourself and do something that would help your purpose.

nvidia said:
Social networking SUCKS.
Its for all the dumb people who want to waste time. If somebody wants to chat, then why dont they use some Instant messengers like yahoo or gtalk?

Forums ROCK.
Im addicted to digit forum

^^^ +1

pushkaraj said:
@gigacore, i completely agree with you Forumming rocks

asnvin said:
No fight at all- Social networking is just about wasting time while you learn a lot visiting forums

nvidia said:
Social networking SUCKS.
Its for all the dumb people who want to waste time. If somebody wants to chat, then why dont they use some Instant messengers like yahoo or gtalk?

Forums ROCK.
Im addicted to digit forum

+1 to everyone!!!

Social networking sites likes Orkut is very useful to get in touch with friends. I got most of my class 7 classmates back due to Orkut! I can't imagine this happening in a forum.

In Forums like this one, most of us doesn't know eachother. It's the matter in context that is important not the man behind it...

Hence both can't be compared.

The only thing i've ever used Orkut for is Finding old friends .

Forums for everything else .

orkut profile is there.but not keen on searching and finding friends.but indeed it is helpful to find old friends and classmates.

I feel best @ forums and esp as Anon

but my www privacy was long gone

forums anyway offers better learning experience.but there are forums for movie buffs etc where I found I cant stay for few seconds

different subjects with different outputs and different userbases, why compare?

L

The Outsider said:
different subjects with different outputs and different userbases, why compare?

+1

My Opinion:

Social Netwoking Sites

> Gud to find old friends.
> Some Communities are gud... Like I found loads of Info on JNU entrance using Orkut communities.

Forums (BB)

> We can learn and make as well as friends <<-- 1000% agrees.. I made best friends here.
> Great place to learn.
> Learn while you teach... Learn and show same people.. Nobody is teacher nobody student.
> Neverending Fun...

N

Gigacore said:
The title says everything.

My Opinion:

Social Netwoking Sites

> Sucks.
> There is nothing other than making friends.
> Waste of time, you cant learn anything.
> Wont get chance to show off ur skills.

Forums (BB)

> We can learn and make as well as friends.
> Get our problems solved.
> Can show off your skills and creativity.
> Fun

Verdict: Forums Rocks!

+1
and i'd like to add-
Forums are better moderated so they have a control (we saw that just yesterday :))

) unlike SN websites with lots of p0rn0 communities.

nish_higher said:
unlike SN websites with lots of p0rn0 communities.

TRUE

well if ud hav started this at any SN site the poll would have results
0% forums
100% SN

N

thats obvious bcoz forum ppl understand social networking in a better way

at least in this forum.
ppl on SN would love to just post sh1t(=referrals,p1rn,etc..) and all that so they'd really like it that way

man! just look at the poll results!!!!!! :O

^ got stunned? :lol:

Forum is the best.

Poll Result:-

Forum:- 34 votes
Social Networking Sites:- 0

^Vaibhavtek ?

Guss what , we cant make girlfriends in Forums , whereas in Social Networking Sites we can

. btw , blogigging and foruming rocks . (yeah there are female viewers of my blog too

)

I hate girls/women disguised as males in forums :evil:

no max,its not meant to u

Gigacore said:
^ got stunned?

ya man!

If the same questions would have been posted on a social networking site, the poll results would have been opposite.(Foruming would have got a only handful of votes). :))

That aside,i too vote for forum.
Forum = Social networking+Learning+All other things.

Social networking = Waste of time + Some short lived fun

^ yes, true!

In fact most of the people who are addicted to social networking sites doesn't know what forums are for. . .

Gigacore said:
^Vaibhavtek ?

Possibly yes.
How did you know?

^ he is the only one guy who copies and paste stuff :lol:

And arse, dont suspect me, coz my PC has crashed, read my sig

I'm on Opera Mini and dont expect me to use those proxies in this tiny browser

Gigacore said:
^ yes, true!

In fact most of the people who are addicted to social networking sites doesn't know what forums are for. . .

Yes,forum is alien word on social networking sites.
Once i searched for "Forum" in orkut & i got only a single community dedicated to foruming,that to with only 10 members.

Also orkut forums are never visited by anyone,except some regular guys.
Most of them are filled with illegal & warez links.

So Forums wins.

A

I think forums dealing with specialized topics will continue to thrive, tech forums like Digit for example, however, the audience looking for general gossip will move towards social networking.

I ditched Orkut for the VideoLAN forums, then to Doom9 forums, then HydrogenAudio, and now I am settled at Digit. At the end of the day, social networking sucks, sucks and sucks again

IMO both sucks if not used wisely, just dont over indulge

praka123 said:
I hate girls/women disguised as males in forums no max,its not meant to u

Gigacore said:
^Vaibhavtek ?

yup

Arsenal_Gunners said:
Possibly yes.
How did you know?

easy. He is the guy who over uses the :shock:

icon.

Gigacore said:
^ he is the only one guy who copies and paste stuff

that too.

^^thats one of an exceptional case

We get to learn in Forums......Knowledge is everything......

The guys who are addicted to Social Networking sites like Orkut etc. don't actually make any beneficial use of them. My friends keep on asking stupid questions like "tere scrap kitne hain?"......."mere tujhse zyaada hain"etc.

And guess what.....If you had a fight with them and you wrote a very good Testimonial for them, they are going to forgive you directly...... Social Networking sites are complete nuisance and are waste of time. My friends are so addicted to Orkut that they want me to chat with them through scraps.

I'm not saying not to have a profile on Orkut. It is going to definitely help you when your friends pass out and disperse in all parts of India for their career. But you should make correct use of it. You should not waste time in just sending stupid scraps.

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Gigacore said:
^Vaibhavtek ?

Gigacore said:
^ he is the only one guy who copies and paste stuff

And arse, dont suspect me, coz my PC has crashed, read my sig I'm on Opera Mini and dont expect me to use those proxies in this tiny browser

Arsenal_Gunners said:
Possibly yes.
How did you know?

Kya tum logo se vaibhavtek k bina jeeya nahi jaata kya?? Don't suspect everyone being vaibhavtek............

S

I hate orkut than any other thing on the planet earth!SUX big time,utter waste of time and wastage of bandwidth and totally useless.
Many of my classmates are addicted to orkut like hell!!I hate them talking abt orkut!Instead do forumming.it helps a lot,at least guyz like me who are curios to knwo more abt computers.I dont think i would have been able to install ubutnu on my machine without the help of some of very helpful members on the forum.You can learn on the forums,make friends,share tech. news,share ur problems and get em solved.On the other hand,orkutting is nothing but talking abt which brand jeans u wear,which goggles u have,what like what u dislike and other mindless and useless crap.
RESULT:Forums rokkkkk big time!!

Verdict of this thread: We are addicted to Forums :))

Obviously

[last vaibhavtek related post]
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=772612#post772612
DEFINITELY HIM
[/last vaibhavtek related post]

Arsenal_Gunners said:
[last vaibhavtek related post]
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=772612#post772612
DEFINITELY HIM
[/last vaibhavtek related post]

Arrey yaar......
Leave vaibhavtek.........If he is really on this forum, then let him survive.

Every thread becomes a thread on which vaibhavtek is discussed more.....

Don't go offtopic guys.....

L

I am glad if the social networking sites doesn't turn into matrimony sites at a later point. I hear Orkut is already been exploited by Indian Aunties

looool

T

Forums definitely ....I learnt a lot of things @ Digit Forum :razz:

Arsenal_Gunners said:
Possibly yes.
How did you know?

Gigacore said:
^ he is the only one guy who copies and paste stuff

This is Vaibhavtek

sab Vaibhavtek ke piche kyu pare hai?...

btw, forum-ing rocks!!

L

I think its seriously time to stop talking about the IDs Vaibhavtek owns or spams, thereby flooding with unnecessary off topic posts!! no offense but seriously!!

yeah guys please stop now. .

Me too for Forum. SNS are just YAWN

S

jyotsna said:
Dear sir/madam

LOOOL!!!!

K

yes u r wright we can learn and make as well as friends. bcoz friends are like our soul and without putting our soul in study we can't learn anything. so we can do both works easily.......

For me both are important. It's a personal choice. I like to use forums better. You can't lock threads in communities of Orkut

E

Yea , ORKUT IS NATIONAL/International WASTE , forums like this Rocks with knowledge !!!

Ya. I also dislike social networking sites. For me forum is the only place when you want to seek some real knowledge. The discussions in forums are very useful to me.

On the other hand social networking sites discuss with craps most of the time. Social networking sites are full waste of bandwidth & invaluable time.

G

ya agree with most of the +1 posts here

say take orkut for eg,,though orkut is for social networking

but active users of forum are less than social networking sites (for a debate)-though u may be liking the slowness of replies...but i like debates where ppl are actively replying ..which is possible in social networking sites (Eg:see the debates in Orkut-India Community and ur Forum)

orkut is also useful for searching/posting/reading some general queries to...Eg

etail of MS-Univs applying/doubts,Mobile Games,question related to specific things,.Moreover u get a list of ppl intrested in specific thing in a Community(atleast some in them not all)

so both of them roxx for me..Depends on how u xploit them for required info

forum here too..don't even created a id in orkut till now.

Forums Yeah!!!!

A

I guess both have their advantages and disadvantages but still in the long run forums are going to remain popular over the internet for a longer period of time as compared to social networking sites as ultimately you well get bored after sometime using social networking sites but forums are going to provide "INSTANT" solutions for your problems forever.

Also many celebs & other people use social networking sites for their advertisement purpose. More or less sn sites becomes boring after some days.
For your information - I've never created an a/c on any SN site

topgear said:
For your information - I've never created an a/c on any SN site

Me toooo

I read in todays newspaper
60% of the internet users in India visit

Social Networking

sites

^^ Now that's a big waste of bandwidth - even watching videos on youtube is not so bad as you get some time really usefull videos.

D@rekills4 said:
I read in todays newspaper
60% of the internet users in India visit Social Networking sites

Add to that,
99.99% doesn't know what forum means.

G

Its stupid to compare SNS n Forum

Both have different purposes n its usage depends on ur attitude n requirement

hmm have 2 agree that most of cuber indian first land to SNS

Social sites me bhi forum hota hai har community ka!!!

Par kya Forums mein Social Networking ho sakta hai?? Jee nahi...........

such a useless question
how come people ask such stupid things!
Allright you forgot to add emails. In older days emails were the way to send love messages, to send jokes and have a social networking through it.
Then came chatrooms ...... forums..... then social networking

I hope that clarifies you.

My choice if I have to make , I'll choose forums

m agree wid gigacore ....forum is the best.....

^^ WoW! what a huge bump ....

BTW, most of the posts in Social Network is useless ( IMO )

how many girls you find in forums :-?

..

^^^ hmm.. I'm a girl.

ico said:
^^^ hmm.. I'm a girl.

Hi Shruti

max_demon said:
how many girls you find in forums ..

indeed they are very few ... but does that really matter ? and even how many girls play games ? it depends-on someone's personal preference whether they will stick with forum or social net sites ... even most of my friend are addictewd to social networking sites .... but geeks will be always addicted to forums ( nowadays )

@gigacore
i agree !!

:+1:

forums only rocks in websites n blogs......

overall facebook iz d king

I do prefer tech Social Sites!!!

---------- Post added at 07:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:14 PM ----------

and yes i almost forgot...facebook is the KING!!!

D

WOOT,Forums Ruless !!!