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Individual and social benefits of online discussion forums
The present research argues that engagement with online discussion forums can have underappreciated benefits for users’ well-being and engagement in offline civic action, and that identification with other online forum users plays a key role in this regard. The popularity of online forums engages communities in specific topics that is open for discussion.
There are subject matters that virtually cover everything imaginable, reaching a massive range of participants. Subjects are vast with discussions that vary from lighthearted to very intense. Expressing yourself on certain issues that are of importance including everything from politics and religion, to sharing grandmother’s apple pie recipe. Main topics are opened on a forum board for discussion called “threads” where individuals post their comments and views to the thread. Sometimes these threads can branch off in relationship to the main topic.
Importance of Online Forums
The benefits you get from our community—the answers people provide to their questions, the sense of belonging, the entertaining interactions all become associated with your brand.