Message boards and forums are the place to go if you love to discuss the latest news and world events, chew on the merits of Firefox vs. Internet Explorer, or anything else that might catch your fancy. There are a huge variety of message board and forum communities to choose from on the Web, and you're sure to find a group that shares your interests.
Places to Find Message Boards
- Google makes message boards easy to find with their Google Groups tool. For example, type in the term “news” and you’ll be directed to sub-categories of news forums and message boards that are easy to join.
- Yahoo also makes it easy to find message boards. Typing in the search term “parent”, I came up with over 4,000 different groups to choose from.
- Dmoz.org is a good way to start; from their home page, you can click on any of the subjects and find at least one mailing list, discussion forum, or message board included in the subject hierarchy.
- BoardTracker: BoardTracker is a search engine dedicated to only sifting through forums and online message boards.
- EzBoard.com: one of the best message boards sites on the Web. Plenty of subjects for everyone here to find their niche.
- RootsWeb Message Boards: message boards dedicated to genealogy searches.
Use Search Engines to Locate Message Boards
In addition to the specialized resources listed above, you can simply use any search engine to find a message board:cat message board
and you'll see plenty of results. This works with pretty much any subject you'd like to explore.
