Monday, June 8, 2009

What is a forum?

Human race being a social being needs certain form of connection with society or the community to interact with. But in our busy day-to-day schedule we sometimes loose this connection with our friends, relatives and our surroundings. Again even though we are in constant touch we may not get enough like minded people to share our experiences or discuss the problems we are facing in our daily life. In fact taking a closer look at the reasons why are we so stressed now-a-days ,one comes to know that more than work pressure it the social pressure that’s working against our health more. So here comes the concept of forum, which is being joined by almost every internet user. In simple words, forum is a kind of tool to share your views, ideas and experience or sometimes even solving problems of other members of the forum. There are numerous websites, providing this interactive platform, where you can have open discussions too about the current topics and present your views.

The platform has become part and parcel of netizens as it gives a community, where you get like minded people to interact with, which are generally missing our daily routine. One of the best advantages of joining a forum is that one can choose the topic of the forum and then get himself registered as per the interest topic. A wide range of forums on websites have been formed in recent past which are based on different choices. It may a women’s forum discussing about the beauty tips, recipes ,and problems related to household ,on the other hand a forum can be a group of people discussing about the current political scenario, or the ones sharing views on current happenings in IT sector.

Joining a forum may be beneficial to the netizens in several others ways too, apart from just the social connection. Sometimes the discussions made on these forums may provide the members with various solutions of the problems that are being faced in routine life.

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