Internet offers myriad ways to share opinions, views.(technology today)

What's the best way to share views with others online about topics of interest to you, whether related to work, a hobby, health, family matters, social matters, politics, religion, or anything else you're involved with, reading about, or thinking through?

The three main Internet-based media for such dialoging are social networks, blogs, and discussion groups. Other electronic media exist as well, including but not limited to instant messaging, texting, and videoconferencing, and they have their benefits, but not for serious, thought-out group messaging.

Discussion groups came on the scene first, arising long before the Internet explosion of the mid-1990s, and in many ways they're still the best way to tap into the …