How to communicate on the forum

One of the most common means of communication on the Internet today are forums, guest books, and commenting on articles. From this small note, novice users will learn about what these communication methods are, get a general concept and recommendations on how to use them.


Forum as a means of communication on the Internet

There are a huge number of sites and forums on the Internet that allow people to communicate by exchanging text messages on their pages. These sites are called forums .


As a rule, each forum has some more or less narrow topic. Often the forum is not the entire site, but only a special section of it, in which visitors can discuss something. A user, having opened a forum page, has the opportunity to leave his question on it, give answers to questions asked by other users, or simply read what other people think about something.


Questions, answers and comments are added there most often with a certain delay and are first checked by the administrators ( moderators ) of the forums. This is done in order to avoid adding to the forum the same questions, hooligan, offensive, obscene and other unwanted comments, etc.


Thus, in order to receive an answer to a question, after adding it to the forum, the user must wait for some time (from several minutes to several days, depending on the popularity and attendance of the forum by other users). But, despite this, the practical importance of the forums is enormous. On popular forums, a large baggage of practical knowledge in a particular area is gradually accumulating. Often asking questions on such forums is not necessary, since the answers to most of them are already there. You just need to go to the forum and find the information you need.


Forums are usually well-structured and made up of sections colloquially referred to as “threads”. For example, an automobile forum may contain sections devoted to maintenance of the engine, chassis, bodywork, etc. In each such section, smaller "branches" will be placed, devoted to the discussion of specific issues.


How to find the forum you want

You can get to a forum of a suitable topic using search engines. For example, if you are interested in communicating on the topic of caring for a cat, it is enough in Google, Yandex or any other search engine to search for the phrase "forum about cats". You will get a huge list of forums on this topic.


How to communicate on the forum. Registration on the forum

To be able to add your questions, answers and comments to the forum , you need to register and go to the forum using the registration data obtained. Registration is often not required to easily browse the forums.


Registration on the forum, as a rule, is carried out by filling out a special questionnaire, which indicates the user's e-mail address, his name, login, password , as well as some other data. The accuracy of the data specified during registration is usually not checked. To open the registration form, click on the "Register" or "Register" button on the forum page.


A prerequisite is the indication of a really valid mailbox in the questionnaire , since, as a rule, a letter is sent to it with the data necessary to complete the registration procedure. In addition, during registration, the user specifies a login (unique name) and password in special fields of the questionnaire . This data must be remembered.


To enter the forum after registration, you must open the forum page, click on the button labeled "Login" or "Login", enter your username and password in the appropriate fields, and click the confirmation button. Quite often, instead of a login, the email address specified during registration on the forum is used.


After entering the forum, you can add your questions and comments. To do this, you need to go to the desired "thread" of the forum. There, the corresponding opportunities will be available by clicking the buttons "comment", "add", "reply", etc.


Commenting on sites

You can communicate on the Internet in addition to forums. On many sites, users are given the opportunity to leave comments and thus communicate with other visitors, discussing some information posted on the site. Most often they comment on blogs, news and other sites, information on which is frequently updated.


The fields in which you need to enter information to add your comments to the site are usually located at the bottom of the page, under the main article. Commenting is not much different from communicating on the forum and, as a rule, does not cause any difficulties. You just need to fill in the appropriate fields (name, email address, comment content, etc.) and click the confirm button.


Guest books

On many sites, users are given the opportunity to communicate with each other or ask any questions to the site administration by posting messages in the guest book.


Guestbook is a special section of the site, which allows anyone to add text messages. The main differences between a guestbook and a full-fledged forum are its significantly smaller size and the absence of separate branches (sections).