If people decided to pass less time online the whole internet business will crash! I have another theory: the PDA, which became widely used ....... cause a forum fits a computer better than a PDA.
These so-called "social networkings sites" are really at heart exactly what forums are. Forums are the second method of social networking on the web right behind email. You can go back to matts wwwboard script. http://www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html VB itself wasn't around till 2000 same goes for phpbb. Myspace didn't start to be a social network site till 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20050101092643/http://www.myspace.com/ Take a peek at Facebook in 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20050106011158/http://facebook.com/ Forums have never flown like some of these social networking sites but at the heart of them all is a community that is run like a forum. Many people I speak to have still never signed up to a forum. To me that signifies the upward potential of forums. Everyone already blogs or knows what they are. The room for forums to grow still exists.