Forums vs. Social media

[Dominique]

How do you compare a forum with social media? Which one is better for building an online community? Do you think having a Facebook group or discord server can be better than building your own self hosted forum?

 

[Nomad]

It depends on your purpose of building a community. For meaningful discussions, forums are good, but if you want to build a community so that you can sell your products, social media sites are better platform

 

[Dominique]

Are social media's are just for sales? Cannot we have meaningful discussions on social media as well? Cannot we use forums for generating sales as well?

 

[Nomad]

Social media sites are not just for sales, social media sites are also for meaningful discussion. However, the way people are using social media sites, these sites are developing into broadcasting platform rather than discussion platform. For instance, you can see how Reddit works and how Instagram works. You cannot see meaningful discussion on Instagram like on Reddit.