Forum Administration

Gone are the days when people remained anonymous and chatted to glory only to fool or end up getting cheated. Here are forum communities which are making profound effect over friendship paradigm. I happen to analyze factors and reason for their success and how strong is the bonding make online.

What promotes friendship over Forums?

As can be seen it throws up immense possibility of making new friends with the forum board.

Now come the question of whether the forum friendship is sustainable?

I would say yes!

Form friends are more stable and trustworthy then any other network, may be it chat, Pure social Networking sites or blogging world. Because you are meaningfully participating in the discussions which is of interest to you, and because the sole motive is not to make contact but evolve the relationship based on the common interest it is more stable and mature.

Secondly, forum posts and discussions gives enough privacy and space to choose the right friend. Because you are not exposing your identity just because of the heck of it which is more common in Social networking Sites, you are slowly peeling off the anonymity with those you trust and who are not identity leach. Chances are that most of those with whom you are interacting are on a common issues you are more likely to make a lasting friendship.

It is purely up to you after a point of time whether it is going to be a forum friendship or translate into a real world friendship.

On a last note I would say a forum friendship is rather more powerful than the real world friendship simply because you are always connected through the online world and not limited by physical presence. Though friends in physical presence do tend to continue friendship over social networking site, it is really not effective as you tend to negate the online world because you have already met those physically. And if you loose them due to geographical barrier, chances of loosing a physical friend is more than online friends.

I say this because most of my friends connect more powerfully to those whom they have never met than to those they are regularly interacting physically.