MN Subaru business cards

tangledupinblu · Jul 31, 2018

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Oh, no, you know better than anyone on here that I get it. I'm still using it, even after twice now walking away from it for various stupid reasons. And you're right, if you approach it from the "I control what goes on here, and what I put on here, I don't care if people see it" mindset, it works fine for what it is in a "friends and family" sense.

My biggest gripe with Facebook is it breaks the main personality hardening factor that forums used to provide for the most part. Up until Facebook, starting and maintaining a forum was hard work. You also know that rather well, as you've been with me through t3hw00t's ups and downs. With that said, typically when you made a fool of yourself on a forum, especially a specialized forum like one for Subaru owners in the state of Minnesota, you don't have a lot of options if you don't like the place. It isn't like there is another Minnesota Subaru forum to run off to when you've burned all your bridges. So, for a time, there was incentive to correct your own behaviors and learn the social skills necessary for interacting with other car guys. I believe this is what drove alot of the high turn out meets back in the day. This WAS where you went for Subaru related social interaction in Minnesota. And people made, for the most part, a concerted effort to get along and figure out how to interact with eachother, and I think that made the community relatively strong and colorful.

But like any relationship, it requires work and effort to maintain. You had to visit to see what everyone was doing, and you had to figure out how to interact in that model by learning about other members through what they post here. And if you wanted to be more involved, you had to respond to posts in kind, and in a manner that was at least somewhat agreeable to the people that were talking. It was healthy social interaction mostly. Then car clubs started popping up on Facebook, where the average interaction was a single sentence or simply clicking a "like" button on a post. People got lazy, and they liked it. If they didn't want to interact with people, or be part of something larger, they could simply click "like" and move on, or do nothing at all. And when it came to posting abhorrent, stupid, or ignorant nonsense, there was always someone to come along and "like" it. And the lazy, that don't wish to change their points of view on the topic, now had a place to continue to be the same socially inept assholes that they couldn't be on forums. Facebook isn't going to ban them for posting clapped out stance-tard stuff, or street racing stuff, or ignorant and racist things, and if the group they are in kicks them out, it's a single click to create a community for people that like the stupid **** that got them banned from the previous group. So, instead of working and communicating with a group of people to build a strong relationship, they can simply click a button and invite the ****heels to their group to discuss ****heel things, and it costs them nothing to set up.

What was once bad behavior that got stomped out by the community at large and made us all closer as a group, is now easily splintered off into a free group page on Facebook, like that fetid ****-hole MNSubiez. Instead of all those people hanging out and figuring out how to interact in a large group, they found a large contingent of ignorant ****lords to pat them on the ass all the time, or at least click that "like" button for their street racing threads and stance pics...or they just get ignored, and only a few likes are clicked. Which works out about as well as patting your puppy on the head when it jumps up on you and scratches your chest, you've just enabled and encouraged that behavior. Sure, it didn't get 1000 likes on a group with 5000 people, but there are plenty of ways you can reason-away the 5 "likes" you got for your stanced out car. There's no "thumbs down" button, so it isn't like there is a quick way to let someone know "hey, that looks stupid." I've scanned through that place, and there's really no cohesion. I guess it is neat that you can buy up a ton of used parts because there's a lot of people selling used parts on there, but in my time scanning that group, I never saw anything resembling a weekly or monthly meet up. Facebook groups don't work well for 'build threads' or whatever.

I guess my point is, Facebook killed car community forums because it is emotionally and socially lazy, and people don't like to be challenged. In personal stuff like "here's a pic of my backyard" and "yay, I got a promotion" or "here's a video game I'm playing!" posts, it works fine, because those things are meant for you, your friends and family, so you can expect positive responses to them. Your personal page on FB is a nice quiet place to be yourself. But as far as interacting with groups of people with similar interests, it is a lazy echo-chamber for people that can't be bothered to co-exist for a better experience. And since you can spin up those echo-chambers with the click of your mouse, it becomes too easy to splinter everyone off into smaller groups that don't go anywhere, rather than put in the effort and empathy that is required to interact with a larger group.
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Agreed...well said.(trying my best not to “like” this post)((damn Faceballs))

Silky21L · Jul 31, 2018

Silky21L · Jul 31, 2018

Image was taken from flowersheet . Com
Id much rather use a photo from a member so there is no chance of involving mnsubaru with copyright issues, but flowersheet says this is a free image intended for PowerPoint.

Cotts612 · Jul 31, 2018

While were at it, get a ton of these made as well!

Aegis · Jul 31, 2018

It's nice, great job!
We kicked around the idea of "spotted" cards a while back. On the back side, you could have a place for the user name of who spotted you, if you want to.

@Cotts612 I need about a hundred of those

pillboy · Jul 31, 2018

That MNSubaru card should have a picture of a Honda on it to be reflective of what forum members move on to once they've had their fill of "Technical Forums".

And that Douche Bag card should have the web address of our sh!tty parking thread.

derp · Jul 31, 2018

Here, use mine.

Aegis · Jul 31, 2018

pillboy said: ↑

That MNSubaru card should have a picture of a Honda on it to be reflective of what forum members move on to once they've had their fill of "Technical Forums".

And that Douche Bag card should have the web address of our sh!tty parking thread.
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I'm not going to disagree with you but

Silky21L · Jul 31, 2018

So which one of you staff members do I need to get the "okay" from to get these made?

readymix · Aug 1, 2018

Silky21L said: ↑

So which one of you staff members do I need to get the "okay" from to get these made? View attachment 27764
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Probably @WRX1

BroCo · Aug 1, 2018

readymix said: ↑

Probably @WRX1
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Does he even MNSubaru any more?

Aegis · Aug 1, 2018

You can probably just use it, let @WRX1 know but I'm guessing he won't have an issue with it. He was always saying we should advocate the site more. I can't even remember who designed the current logo (if you are still on here please chime in).. but I'm sure he wouldn't mind, either.

pillboy · Aug 1, 2018

BroCo said: ↑

Does he even MNSubaru any more?
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I think Mix scared him away.

Aegis · Aug 1, 2018

Nah as far as I'm concerned we are still on good terms with him.

readymix · Aug 1, 2018

Often, when I've had too many beers, I end up showing my ass and forgetting I did so. Others, however, never forget.

Aegis · Aug 1, 2018

readymix said: ↑

Often, when I've had too many beers, I end up showing my ass on this forum and forgetting I did so. Others, however, never forget.
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ftfy

blackozone · Aug 1, 2018

in 4 pix of mixxx

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