Online forum where people share information, thoughts, and opinions is known as an online community bulletin board. Respondents are invited to log in at their leisure to answer numerous questions by market research firms.

Electronic bulletin boards (also known as message boards or computer forums) are online communication platforms that allow users to exchange, request, and discuss information on a wide range of topics. E-mail is a private way to communicate with one or more persons through the Internet, whereas online bulletin boards are open to the general public. Any user to a bulletin board can read and comment to any message posted there, while “posting” privileges are normally allowed only when some form of registration is completed. A newsgroup is a huge collection of electronic bulletin boards. The Internet is home to thousands of newsgroups, each dedicated to a specific topic. Some are devoted to roof maintenance, some to obscure computer languages, and still others to skin problems. It’s all there.