PMB's were a natural match for the internet: take a subject that guys need to share their stories with their friends, but make the subject taboo so they CAN'T. BOOM! With the birth of PMB's guys can share their war stories anonymously. the concept caught on like wildfire. bidoggie, JAG, etc.
But soon business interests started to corrupt the process. Both supply side and demand side realized how to manipulate the system. Backchanneling, shilling, etc. run rampant. We had women telling us the purpose of our site is to provide free advertising and guys saying you write one story for public consumption and then the truth to your friends backchannel.
We have tricks so up in girls businesses that they have the personal info of many of their clients. I was personally aghast when the person posting for Hiyako told me I should thank him for "the freebie" when I hadn't even received one (aghast because he even kn ew I had been there, aghast because I wondered who else he was telling I got a freebie, etc.).
A former advertiser had to send out an email this week chiding his customers for talking in the elevator because SO's of some of his other customers visit other establishments in the building.
What happened to discretion? This used to be the "dirty little secret". Have things swung so far in the opposite direction that guys don't realize the potential for personal disaster anymore?
But soon business interests started to corrupt the process. Both supply side and demand side realized how to manipulate the system. Backchanneling, shilling, etc. run rampant. We had women telling us the purpose of our site is to provide free advertising and guys saying you write one story for public consumption and then the truth to your friends backchannel.
We have tricks so up in girls businesses that they have the personal info of many of their clients. I was personally aghast when the person posting for Hiyako told me I should thank him for "the freebie" when I hadn't even received one (aghast because he even kn ew I had been there, aghast because I wondered who else he was telling I got a freebie, etc.).
A former advertiser had to send out an email this week chiding his customers for talking in the elevator because SO's of some of his other customers visit other establishments in the building.
What happened to discretion? This used to be the "dirty little secret". Have things swung so far in the opposite direction that guys don't realize the potential for personal disaster anymore?