Does social media help forums or destroy them?

[Shole]

If you have a forum, and you have a twitter and Instagram page and facebook page for it, what stops people from using those social media posts instead of your forum?

 

[Jason]

Well, with my Facebook stuff, I use it as a strong page for information. Nonetheless, I also use it for a gateway to my forum which has a lot of information and is growing. In that case, the Facebook situation is very useful because, well, a lot of possible visitors are on social media and you need to go where the people are.

 

[opaline]

If you use social media to promote your forum, it helps. But generally, I believe social media destroys forums because nowadays, majority of people prefer social media over forums.