Do you still use the Forums as much as Facebook or Instagram for your PT discussions?

[214Chevy]

I don't and never have had FB. I love the whole layout and platform of the forums.

[Hydratech®]

I look at all of these other businesses with all the social media "like us on Fakebook" and all of this other (garbage) and won't touch it with a ten foot poll. I'm pushing 50, and think all of this social media "stuff" is "Millennial" based. We did a "Fakebook" page for a short moment, then it pissed me off with some "stupid bitchassness" and buh bye it went... Solidifying my thinking on the topic.

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by V8TV

Facebook and IG are super easy, but they are no place for a thread. You cannot search well, and everyones topics are just piled on and you have to plow through them all. IMHO, nothing beats a forum for keeping an organized record of a build.

Yep! Until photobucket goes and throws a wrench in everything!

[Build-It-Break-it]

I've never been on or had Facebook,twitter,instagram,etc etc . I'm 36 if that matters and wouldn't even know where or what to do on it. I don't even watch the news or reality TV besides car shows. To much personal information is on Facebook etc.

I love the forums but the traffic now a Days seems minimal. I can't talk tho because I don't even have a build thread even tho I'm building a car.

[DBasher]

I like the forum better, I'm able to track conversations and builds without a lot of searching...better interaction. I have FB and I think 89 friends, some of those are shops and the rest are real friends that I have their numbers in my phone...I don't get the huge amount of "friends" unless you're promoting a business. Heck, I have friends (bad influences) on here that aren't FB friends and we're communicating mostly by text.

Todd, if you've got people dropping a deuce on your lawn every morning I'd suggest getting off FB or doing a real good housekeeping. It can be a decent place for communicating if you empty the trash.

[SSLance]

I was a long time hater of Facebook and finally gave in and have embraced. It is good at keeping up with those you don't see everyday but at the same time you might see some things you can't unsee, you have to filter accordingly or you'll go crazy.

I much prefer a forum for detailed info and interaction, the problem is the ever declining lack of interaction on most message boards. One message board I've been part of for 20 years recently just set up a private group on Facebook and told all its members to go there. It's cheaper, faster, easier to hang with them and traffic in the group is way up again, but it is horrible to find conversations more than a day old and absolutely no organization at all.

In short Facebook is great for visiting with others but horrible at what forums do best.

I'm 50 and have been message board active in many groups for over 20 years.

[ironworks]

I don't interact on the forums as much. I think its very niche marketing that can work but there is whole other HUGE world out there. I want to quit Facebook every week it seems but it is a necessary evil. I enjoy Instagram much more. You don't have to see what everyone you follow interacts with. Just what you wanna see.

I go thru forums and think Photobucket ruined the forums. I almost refuse to resign up with another company and its just easier to host my own pictures on my shop website. And the stuff I build for myself now days I just keep to my self.

This world is going the way of the mobile phone for everything. Its only going to get worse.

[Josh@Ridetech]

I'm a forum guy. If I'm looking for info on a specific part, I like being able to search and find that topic quickly. It seems as if there is more spot on knowledge on the forums as well. Seeing the person's post count and how the other members react to their posts lets me judge how much (or little) I trust that person's opinion. I'm not saying there aren't people on other social media sites that know what they're doing, I just get the more 1 on 1 feel from forums.

[Vegas69]

Originally Posted by DBasher

I like the forum better, I'm able to track conversations and builds without a lot of searching...better interaction. I have FB and I think 89 friends, some of those are shops and the rest are real friends that I have their numbers in my phone...I don't get the huge amount of "friends" unless you're promoting a business. Heck, I have friends (bad influences) on here that aren't FB friends and we're communicating mostly by text.

Todd, if you've got people dropping a deuce on your lawn every morning I'd suggest getting off FB or doing a real good housekeeping. It can be a decent place for communicating if you empty the trash.

I've cleaned house many times. I guess it comes down to the fact that I have little desire to know what people are doing every waking hour of their lives. All the news has a way of filtering back in or being shared as well. I think it's really bad for society from the negative news to the vast amount of comparison that comes natural. It's really a genius idea as humans naturally want validation which is a like on Facebook. Not to mention being able to nose into others lives.

With that being said, I do like to check in on family and close friends once in a while to see what they have been up to. The less time I spend on Facebook, the more I actually feel like CALLING them. Imagine that...

[MCB Matt]

Ok, here is another quick question, do you use the app for the forums or just log in from a phone browser?

I feel the forums are NOT as easy on a mobile device as they are on a desktop.

I have had customers in the past say they prefer email to PM because it's "hard to use"

Traffic is down, you are right. The Facebook groups are growing by the day and more and more groups are being formed. I frequent the CTS-V FB pages and they get a LOT of posts.

Yes, a lot are people giving other people crap... I see that on forums as well, maybe just not as often.

Matt