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I’m struggling to find a way to word this that doesn’t seem dismissive or snarky, but I’m genuinely curious so I’m going to take a stab at it anyways. I am a d
by tsuujin 5y ago
I’m struggling to find a way to word this that doesn’t seem dismissive or snarky, but I’m genuinely curious so I’m going to take a stab at it anyways.
I am a dad who has felt all of the things you mention and my interest in this platform is high, but you mention that you started this off as an instagram group and it sounds like a lot of your content and focus is going to be around what you learned from people that I don’t identify with at all.
I have never felt comfortable with the social aspects of social media; I don’t have a Facebook or Instagram because I simply don’t feel that the social constructs there are healthy for me. It’s not a dig at people who do it, it just isn’t for me. I like being social, I just have never felt comfortable with the feedback cycle pushed by the big platforms.
Do you feel like your platform is going to be biased or weighted towards the type of people who do value social media? How are you distinguishing yourself from that?
- pbarondadditude 5y agoI've spent a year researching and talking to parenting professionals, academic researchers, therapists, parent support group organizers (online and offline). We ended up working with 18 parenting professionals, most of them PhDs, to write content that is relevant to the spectrum of needs that dads are expressing. The social network side of things was to try and reach dads where I was able to (being a non parenting professional) and validate that dads were indeed looking for such support on this range of subjects. Dads are on social networks and it's a great place to reach out to them. We agree that social networks are a terrible interface to offer support. We use it as a beacon to say, we hear you, we see you and we have our app if you want more qualified support.