# Why use Discourse over Linkedin, Google, or Facebook Groups?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-use-discourse-over-linkedin-google-or-facebook-groups/10171
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [2 Octubre, 2013 20:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-use-discourse-over-linkedin-google-or-facebook-groups/10171 "2013-10-02T20:07:35Z")
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### Author: ![cregox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cregox/32/115904_2.png) [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)
#### Post date: [19 Diciembre, 2014 13:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-use-discourse-over-linkedin-google-or-facebook-groups/10171/19 "2014-12-19T13:02:59Z")

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One reason haven’t been cited yet, maybe because it probably won’t convince anyone to move: because it’s way better for async conversations. Way way better. And it’s better than anything out there, including reddit.

That being said, this is a great topic to me. Lots of reasons I haven’t thought of bringing in when I evangelize it to people. They sound so much more appealing!

I’d argue, from what I could compile, the following are the top ones, which aren’t cited anywhere in the [home](http://discourse.org) (I think it have way too technical pages).

For community managers:

- **Monetization**. The forum is yours, it’s open, and you can do as you please. This is to forums what wordpress was to blogs.

- **SEO**. You can find stuff in it with Google. Even in google groups you can’t find it as easily as in discourse.

- **Yours** to keep. Being open source means all data is yours and all business is yours.

For users:

- Works on **mobile**. Unlike most of other ones.

- **Best** search. Easy to find with its own search tool, creating topics will bring likely duplicates, related topics on the bottom, and google friendly.

- **Filter** noise. With categories it’s easier to browse and seek for new subjects or topics. Also in a big community you can select a few specific categories of your interest to filter all noise out.

- Your **identity**. Not different from any other forums, but different from google, facebook and linkedin, you identify yourself in a different way, the way you want it. Be anonymous if you need to. Disconnect from work or family. Or connect if you want.

- Keep **conversations** going. No matter for how long. Without disruption. Categories, starting new topics, moderation, innovative thread reply without removing timeline. There are many many tools in place to make conversations flow.

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