I wonder why Forums and message boards are not so popular in India as compared to western and eastern countries of the world. I tried to find the reason to my question and explored many good forums in India but still popularity is lacking. If I look on the other side for eg. Blogs then I noticed that from last one year blogs are doing very good in India though little bit late then other developed countries but still its going good nowadays since people understood the definition of blogs and some media attention towards Indian bollywood celebrity’s blog. Many of you may be aware how Indians follows everything of there favourite bollywood superstars then why not copying there new online blogging hobby?
This one particular example of blogs made me think about forums and future of forums in India. I think it will take little more time to get the popularity waves for message boards and community forums like how any teen age American or European kid start his own forum according to his hobby or likes and invites his/her friends to join and it is a start of a community. Be it there favourite wwe stars or most liked video games discussions. Still most of the Indian teens who use internet in most of there spare times hangs out in social networking sites or downloading free games or music.
There are many good Indian forums exists but most of them or I think all of them what I saw are based on education, career, cricket or bollywood. I never came across any Indian forum like gaiaonline.com a world’s largest community forum where anytime more than 30k people gets online, Gaia is really an entertainment forum for mostly kids and teenaged guys and gals for discussing anime, manga, flash games, virtual avatars etc. If we go more deep inside to find reasons for why Indian forums are only forums and not community than many more reasons will arise but I have feelings from heart that soon after blogosphere Indian internet users will be busy in making forums or making more posts in there friend’s forums.
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