Do you follow Postmasculine on Facebook?

[Zac]

Just a few questions guys. Thanks for taking the time to answer them.

Do you follow Postmasculine on Facebook?

What do you think about Postmasculine's Facebook?

Is there anything you would like to see more of?

Do your friends follow it as well?

Would you recommend it (why/why not)?

Do you follow other men's brands?

What do those brands do online that you enjoy?

[FirstAidKit]

I like to keep my internet personas and my real life personas separate, so I doubt I will follow it. I'll keep an eye on it though.

EDIT: Teehee, kindof fun putting faces to usernames though...

[Chaos]

I do just the exact oposite of what FirstAid does, I like to have a certain level of congruency between my Internet persona and my real self.

I follow it in Facebook but that's just a matter of loyalty or whatever... Most of my friends don't understand English and I don't have enough time to translate every article. I translate some of them for their benefit and usually submit it to them by mail... I've never really understood brands in Facebook. I usually read postmasculine articles on google reader or the web and find out if a new one is on that way. I also follow Jules, for example, and I don't really visit or care about what they post...

[FirstAidKit]

Well, for me FirstAidKit is my username on a few blogs I comment on mostly involved with sex or kink. Being as I have family and colleagues on facebook, I prefer to keep them separate. I'm also not a fan of everything I do being linked to everything I do, but I know not everyone feels that way.

[Chaos]

I wasn't criticizing just stating, sorry if it came out the other way.

[Tim]

I understand and respect both choices. I'm trying to become more open about sharing myself, but telling people I'm moving to Colombia to work for this site is weird. A lot of people, especially family friends, don't know the self-development side of me at all, let alone the former PUA saga I went through. Explaining what the site is about to them just goes over their heads completely. It has made me realise how much of myself I've hidden from people over the years though, and I now know that has to change. If I really believe in this, why am I hiding it from people? I'm actually being patronizing when I don't think they'll understand or relate to it, and I'm just being overly protective of them judging me for believing in this and for having gone through that change. That needs to change.

[Zac]

The thing about following a brand on Facebook is you don't have to interact with them or share their stuff. I follow all my favorites sites on Facebook because it's like 1 giant RSS feed. That's just me though, a social media addict lol.

I follow brands because they show me the site. They show me the interactions people have with a company. This site has a forum and you guys obviously see how Mark is in here. Not everyone that just reads the articles knows what it's like and how he is about things.

Branding on Facebook is simply to extend the message to other's and open up the conversation. You can see what random people have to say, you can see the new articles, and sometimes so far it posts funny videos and pictures here and there.

It's going to be getting vamped up over the next few months, I was just kind of looking for ideas and people's impressions for ideas on where to go with it.

I seriously doubt many people even noticed the day I liked the site or have dug through my profile to notice it there in my likes. Even if they did, I probably wouldn't care that much but that's just me. I tell the girls I date (for a while) that I belong to dating forums and led social night and day events for a group and all that stuff. It's just part of who I am. I work hard on being the best version of myself I can be and I make no apology for that. Some people love me for it, some people don't like me for it I'm just being me doing my thing and trying to stick with the ones that love me as much as I can. . I'm just trying to be like... myself... non apologetically and hoping for the best. I awkwardly told me entire extended family about this site and when they all start reading it some of them are going to look at me much different when I get back.


At the same time, I understand there are many reasons that come even simply down to preference. Some people just like following just their friends. Some people love their RSS feeds. I'm just on Facebook more than anything else ever.


Why you guys think anyone would know you were in this forum just because you liked a brand on Facebook one day? I don't ask to pressure you at all, I just really want to understand how everyone feels about this topic.

[FirstAidKit]

(04-03-2012 11:11 PM)Chaos Wrote:  I wasn't criticizing just stating, sorry if it came out the other way.

I wasn't criticizing either! I think both perspectives are valid, just preferences really.

[Chaos]

Tim, yeah... for me it has never been that way, on the other hand, even when I was full on the old PUA school I never felt like I was tricking the chicks so I never felt the need to hide it from anyone. But for you, right now, its a matter of perspective. I've evolved and improved SO MUCH with the game that I feel almost like a duty to share it with the rest of the people.

What started as a way to get more chicks actually became a journey to become better and I'm simply so very much better and comfortable with myself right now that I was two years ago that I can only acknowledge it as something completely positive. So you have to present it that way...

In fact that's exactly what you should do, specially if your parents are a little old fashioned... if you can sell them the idea, you can sell the idea to anyone (and from my point of view is a great idea to sell, is like selling new iPads, best job in the world ). For me, whenever I have to explain it to someone new I always say the same: It's like the karate kid wax on, wax off, you think you're learning to pickup chicks, but in fact you're learning to live better and improve yourself.

[Tim]

(04-03-2012 11:25 PM)FirstAidKit Wrote:  

(04-03-2012 11:11 PM)Chaos Wrote:  I wasn't criticizing just stating, sorry if it came out the other way.

I wasn't criticizing either! I think both perspectives are valid, just preferences really.

Sometimes the people on this site are just so respectful and understanding of each other it makes me sick

[Chaos]

(04-03-2012 11:34 PM)Tim Wrote:  Sometimes the people on this site are just so respectful and understanding of each other it makes me sick

Is just with the ladies, I was grown to care and respect them. You on the other hand can just fuck off

[Tim]

Ah I should have expected this! Always so envious of all my likes.

[Zac]

I say we take Tim's likes away from him and see if he turns into this

[IdEngager]

I don't follow PostMasculine on Facebook cause I already visit this site on a near daily basis so it'd be useless being double informed of new content being posted. I mostly follow bands, places, or products I'd be interested in hearing updates about but since I already get most of the updates straight from the site, it seems a bit unnecessary (unless you or Mark really wanted me to Like the page).

Also, I don't think I've ever taken more than a cursory look at someones Likes on their Facebook page, so you are all safe... I generally know way before hand if a person's tastes suck or not!