I do not see forums going away. To me things like MySpace and Facebook are fads and just need to go away. For example, I don't care what you ate last night. I also don't want to spend my time filling out those dumb question emails to learn more about somebody. If I want to know about you, I will do the personal thing and contact you directly.
They have nothing to do with props. Why do I want to look at a page about a person where there are more ads and pop-ups than content the person put up? Please try to find me on one of those types of sites. You will not find me there.
A place like TDH is a great place to find info about a prop. I don't see finding anything useful on Facebook about how to put Boba together.
Just my 2 cents.
I agree 100%
I do not have a facebook, Myspace or Tweet (whatever the hell that means.) When it comes down to it, Myspace, Facebook, ect, are simply large marketing groups. Companys will keep producing more applications that will make it easier for you to know what your friend ate for lunch. And the more way's that you can see this, means more advertisments for everyone. Even if ad's start to get time consuming and are interfering with the purpose of these networking sites people will always return to them. I am amazed that so many people are entertained by what Oprah or any other celebrity's is doing, that will take the time and prescibe to one of their "channels".
These urban networking sites will not take down traditional forums. As long as forums remain forums and don't start to fade into a networking site. You can not go to myspace and have discussions about research on a topic. If anything people are getting more lazy in research and would rather look at some type of wiki then bother talking to others and finding out more,forums should be more concerned about that then networking sites.