Internet forum problem
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The Internet forum problem refers to the problem that traditional Internet forums are dying rapidly.
Social media sites have been displacing Internet forums.
Reasons include:
- Social media sites like Reddit and Facebook Groups could aggregate content from multiple discussion groups.
- Social media sites provide a single log-in.
- Social media sites already have a larger userbase. It's easier to obtain traffic for a new subforum on a social media site.
- Traditional Internet forums have software that is often not up-to-date.
- On social media sites, users are able share material across different areas of the site without worrying about copyright infrigement. Examples:
- Flickr allows users to repost images from any user account to any of Flickr's groups (which include Flickr's own discussion forums). In contrast, if a third-party discussion forum reposts any of Flickr's images on its own site, then this might be copyright infringement. Third-party forums do not have the benefit of reusing Flickr's images without violating copyright laws.
- Similarly, users could repost any image found on Facebook to any Facebook Group without worrying about copyright infringement.