Facebook and Twitter can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. The rot started when IMDb moved the help board to the corporate GetSatisfaction site (Logged into via corporate internet giant Facebook, a company that is big enough to dictate to governments on how much tax they are willing to pay). I come to IMDb to read and interact here, not via any other site. Maybe having a conversation is going out of fashion now, a lot of us must be outmoded, posting pictures of a cup of coffee with "Yum Yum!" written under it, is considered intellectual stimulation nowadays. I have no interest in social media sites, but they seem to be taking over the internet and money talks. I'm 46 so allowed to be an old curmudgeon!
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It doesn't matter how many "followers" they have on FB or Twitter. People can't have a real discussion on either the way they can here. If Needham and crew believed that, they're delusional.

they did a update on the boards a few years ago and shut them down for a few days. I wonder what the reason is for shutting it down is it money ?
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And yet it's the most user-friendly,organized discussion boards out there. SO sad.

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by Down_South
» 1 hour ago (Tue Feb 7 2017 18:06:58)
IMDb member since July 2008
Actually that is not the reason.
Censorship is the reason.
There is a blacklist on free speech and taking away avenues of speech are a way of narrowing it down.
Know what I mean?
^^^ This.
Plus the fact that there's a general push internet-wide toward making people either have a presence on Facebook and Twitter and directly deal on there, or have to log into somewhere else
via
Facebook or Twitter, otherwise you can't communicate or participate.
The reasons are a mixed bag of both understandable factors, and on the other hand some sinister ones.
I'm not even one of those conspiracy theory people, but even I think the directions things are going are shady.

Actually that is not the reason.
Censorship is the reason.
There is a blacklist on free speech and taking away avenues of speech are a way of narrowing it down.
Know what I mean?

Money is the internal reason.
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000040/thread/264681264

I'm thinking they do have other internal reasons for this, although I don't think they're necessarily shady. The fact that the board system is older and dated technology has been brought up, and they have a point there, although in this case, surely they could take them down temporarily to update them. Not that simple, I know, but in essence, practical.

It should send a message how sketchy this all sounds.
Directing people to twitter and Facebook was the nail in the coffin
I would never be a part of that

I don't believe it. I am not on Facebook, however, I checked Pinterest: 75 000 followers and Twitter is even worse. They tweet scenes from, what they believe to be a popular movie with a sensational post and that's it. There is no discussion taking place.
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000040/thread/264681264