So What's A Man To Do?

Posted by Vernston on March 5, 2010

Have you noticed the ratio of serious, business minded women to men in your social networks?

For some reason when I got started with internet marketing and social networking I only found women talking about what I was interested in learning. So there are more women than men in my network anyway.

Initially I followed or friended anyone who friended or followed me. Recently I realized that most of the women in my social networks are goal oriented, results driven, productivity minded while most of the men in my networks are content to talk about news, sports, entertainment, current events and controversial issues.

Now don’t get me wrong. Any and all of of these topics are worth discussing. But something occurred to me just a few days ago. Many of the women I know are serious about empowerment as well they should be and they are doing what’s necessary to make it a reality in their lives.

While many of the men I know in the Social Networking arena are slow to make tracks. I know more women bloggers, more women holding teleseminars, more women studying and teaching aspects of internet marketing, more women talking about niche selection and product creation.

My wife just enrolled in an 8 week course for women to learn the ins and outs of marketing and social networking. I’ve found numerous sites for work at home moms and the topic of financial literacy is almost exclusively taking place among women while guys I know are blabbing on about Texas Hold ‘em and fantasy sport leagues.

Fellas, Guys, Brothers, Men…. We’ve got to do better. When are we going to take action and responsibility for the conditions in our communities, quality of education and environment in public schools, Financial Literacy, Health, Business Cooperatives, Solid Marriages and other issues where more good hearted men of wisdom need to make their presence felt?

I didn’t mean for this post to turn into a rant but they say steel sharpens steel. So I’m just sharing an observation I made in my hasty unscientific study of men & women in my web based sphere of influence. This in hopes that I can raise my game to higher standards and you can too. Lets not be content with making making By Any Means Necessary speeches on Twitter or quoting Rumi and Ancient Philosophers on Facebook all day long.

Let me know what you have to offer and how you intend on are changing the game. Otherwise the world is going to pass us by and everything that I absolutely need will have to come from a brilliantly empowered, all wise and civilized woman. Because I won’t be able to find any brothers to cut the mustard.