Peegs Message Boards (2024)

FAQs

Do people still use message boards? ›

Back in the dial-up days, online message boards were where people would go to ask questions and get advice from other people. These days, people use them to talk about just about anything. There are internet forums for almost anything you can imagine, like sports, hobbies, and even politics.

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived.

Every mobile phone has a native SMS app built in, which gives SMS an extensive global reach. As of 2023, there were almost 8.9 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide. That even exceeds the global population of 7.9 billion!

Telegrams are sent for deaths or important occasions as they are thought to be more formal than email or fax, but less so than a letter.

Discussion boards facilitate asynchronous class discussion and group work, and can be used to encourage students to think critically and share their thoughts before or beyond live teaching.

It's a pretty interesting topic, and I've got some thoughts based on what I've seen and experienced. To cut to the chase, Internet forums aren't exactly dead, but their popularity has definitely shifted over time. Back in the day, forums were a go-to spot for discussions, sharing information, and building communities.

It seems that in the past couple of years, traditional forums have been largely replaced by specialized community-building tools, like Discord and Slack, or by social media groups, like the ones on Facebook.

Current user base

As of March 2022, the most used instant messaging apps and services worldwide include: Signal with 100 million, Line with 217 million, Viber with 260 million, Telegram with 700 million, WeChat with 1.2 billion, Facebook Messenger with 1.3 billion, and WhatsApp with 2.0 billion users.

Texting is one of the most popular forms of electronic communication, with billions of people sending and receiving Short Message Service (SMS) messages each day. To put things into perspective, mobile phone users in the U.S. alone sent 2 trillion text messages in 2021.

SMS also boasts open rates as high as 98%, which means that your messages not only reach the phones of your audience, those messages will also actually be read. This is further proven by the fact that 85% of surveyed people in 2023 admitted to prefer receiving text messages than they do receiving emails or phone calls.