Blogs & Forums

Blogs and Forums are very similar, however they do have some differences.

Forums are created for discussion between many people, whereas blogs are created for single user input, with the option to allow other people to comment on your post. So, blogs are more like a simple homepage where other people may contribute with comments, but there is one overall ruler, the blog owner, who can delete any comment they do not like. However, in forums there can be hundreds or even thousands of people posting discussion topic messages and also adding comments to those topics.

It is difficult to use a forum as a journal because their message will get lost in the constant stream of messages posted by other people. People tend to post shorter messages in forums, but blogs usually have longer messages on average.