In actually fact, you should not need to compare social media such as Facebook or Twitter with good old fashion webmaster forum such as UK webmaster forum but this days increasingly there is a gap emerging between people who use forums and social media for their fix of up today information and interaction with other webmasters.
Given that social media is taking the upper hands in the competition for traffic, forum owners are increasingly integrating their forum in such a way that the distinction between forums and social media is blurring for example post from webmaster form is posted automatically to Facebook, blogpost from webmaster blogs such as Temi are posted to Twitter, such post in turn generate interaction from Twitter and Facebook users who has to come to the forum to be able to engage and interact properly with the rest of the contents.
Judging by the current trends, it seem the power to attract traffic is shifting from forums to social media and it is hoped by webmasters who love forum that the popularity of social media will not mean the doom of traditional discussion forum.
Forums are not sitting by and surrendering to the likes of Facebook, Google+, and twitter, they are exploring aspect of their existence which provide significant advantage over social media, for example, SEO forums are able to attract webmasters because things such as forum signature are ways of building seo friendly links with is no an option offered by the like of Facebook
