JorShi started this discussion ·
Hey ladies... I as now have all of my pole pics and stuff on my personal facebook. I don't care if anyone sees them but I was thinking that maybe I will just setup a different account for just pole. I will be adding more videos as well. Im not sure what to do. Do you have separate accounts? Is it easier and less of a hassle to see the things you want?
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Charley ·
Yup, I have 2! I have the real me - which does include local polers and polers I do bidness with...but I want the real me to have a space to not get inundated with things - I can get back to people right away about things. It's just a space for people I actually know in real life with and make real plans with to be able to get in touch with me. Honestly I spend WAY more time on my pole FB because it's more fun! 🥂
I have my personal FB and then I have a Team Lulu fanpage. I personally dont have a problem mixing the two, b/c I think Id get confused between both pages. Granted I have to check fb a few hours b/c it would take me forever to check facebook.
that's a pretty good Idea! I might try that. Although I keep all of my pole pics on my fb and I select only certain people who can see them, although that can get kind of annoying after a while.
kcfl5 ·
At first I had them all on one FB account. Then a friend of mine who doesn't understand commented on a photo and I then created another FB account. Life is much better. I don't get critized.
my FB account was created to stay in touch with my fellow polers. There are a few family members and a few other friends on it but it is 90+% polers. My family was told from the get go that my page was for my poling and my poling friends and if anything critical was said to them or about them or about me poling I could delete them as fast as I added them 😈 and that includes my own mother lol!
i've thought about getting a separate fb page for poling too because i dont want certain people in my family and friends circle to know about my poling hobby. But i never moved forward on creating the second fb profile because I figured that i can keep in touch with my poling acquaintances here on studio veena... but then i thought, "hey! there is NOTHING wrong with my poling hobby! My family and friends should be ok with it." and i was set on just having one fb profile... so now, i dont know what to do! 😀
There was a forum post up about a girl getting kicked off FB cuz of her pole pics, that freaked me out! I don't really have pole pics of me on FB because I have my son's friend's parents and co workers on FB and I know know that some people don't understand it. I tell people that StudioVeena is like FB but for polers and this is where I express my pole fun and meet other polers! So if you wanna put up pole pics and vids, I'd make a second account just to save your self from the same old "I'm not a stripper, I do it for fun/exercise, stop offering me twenties"
Dayanara ·
I wouldn't be able to maintain 2 facebooks, I have only one and my pole stuff is on there, I have NO coworkers on my facebook tho, even if I had a separate personal account I wouldn't have them on there, to me, work is work and I dont really need these people all up in my business. LOL, but I have some family members on my fb, they know I pole for fitness and if they dont like it then they are free to delete me, my mother recently deleted me from facebook. hahahahaha, yes, she did. oh well.
EvaRut ·
I only have one facebook account. I think that everyone I know knows that I pole dance. I was so excited when I started that I told everybody about it, people at work, my friends and family. And its no secret at allt. To me its no different then any other sport or dance. Most people are just supportive and happy for me for doing what I love. I dont see anything wrong with poledancing so if anyone else thinks that there is something wrong with it and that im doing it, then its just really not my problem. 😀
I only have one facebook account. I think that everyone I know knows that I pole dance. I was so excited when I started that I told everybody about it, people at work, my friends and family. And its no secret at allt. To me its no different then any other sport or dance. Most people are just supportive and happy for me for doing what I love. I dont see anything wrong with poledancing so if anyone else thinks that there is something wrong with it and that im doing it, then its just really not my problem. 😀 Yeh good point. I wish I could be so open like that. I just get tired of doing the "Explanation dance" with people..BOOOO!
EvaRut ·
Hehehe what about just using the word pole fitness? 😛
Hehehe what about just using the word pole fitness? 😛 Oh I have my "pole fittness" folder with my pics in it and people still ask about my "stripper pole pics" they're stooooopid. 😕
EvaRut ·
Maybe theyre just trying to annoy you? My boyfriend and few other people used to say stripper practice. I just got tired of saying no its pole fitness/dance not strip. He would say things like,, Are you going to a stripper practise? I just got used to it and said yes and stopped correcting it. I know he knows its not strip 😛 I think some people are just trying to be funny saying that 😛
Ok good point. A funy thing happened the other day when my pole arrived at my house.... I was supposed to be on a play date with my daughter and neighbor. Well because i was putting up my pole I was sooooo beyond late. I told my husband to go over there and take my daughter with him so they don't wonder where we were. He went to the neighbor's house and for some reason they wanted to come over my house. Well low and behold when the neighbor came into our house ( my pole is in my living room smack in front of the television) His eyes popped out! He was like " are you a tripper?" I was like no silly I'm a stay at home mom silly. He said "I don't judge this is your house" but he looked ashamed. Then his daughter asked him "daddy what is that" and he said " oh that's her stripper pole honey" I laughed my a$$ of and was like, "um no honey it's a dance fittness pole kinda like the fire man has" C'mon guy she's 3!!!
I have a personal facebook page and a House of Pole page and that's more than enough for me LOL. I think since I'm in the business of pole it's so closely linked to my personal life that I kind of need the two to be intertwined. I've gotten lots of leads and sales from family and friends who know somebody that knows somebody that wants to know about pole and they all know I do it so they send them my way. Plus my personal page has become 90% polers too anyway so....my real life family and friends just gotta squeeze in there when they can LOL. Plus I like sharing what I do with my family and friends. I too have my pole pics set up so that not everyone can see them. I'm not ashamed of what I do but my Dad and Grandpa aren't really interested in seeing me on a pole in 6 inch heels so I spare them that visual. LOL
There was a forum post up about a girl getting kicked off FB cuz of her pole pics, that freaked me out! Yup, that was me. A word of advice for you all: make sure the people viewing your pole pictures are supportive of your poling. What happened with me was that I thought my pole pictures were friends only, because I only had about a dozen friends on there and all of them already knew I poled and were fine with it, but there was a pic of me doing a CKR that was actually viewable to the public, and someone on a friend's friend list flagged it. It was a big hassle; FB deactivated my account for a week, then just a day and a half after it was reactivated, the photo was flagged again, by the same person, I'm sure. It then took me two weeks of contacting FB to even get a reply from them, only to be informed that I was permanently banned from FB for posting 'pornographic content.' I was in just a regular bathing suit, and not doing anything in violation of their policy. Just keep in mind that if your photo gets flagged, Facebook does NOT review the situation even though it says they do in the form letter they send you. If someone decides they are offended by your pole pictures and reports you, there's a chance you could get kicked off, even though you're not in violation of their actual policy. It seems as though FB's policy is deactivate your account on the first offense, then ban you if someone happens to flag you again. I'll be making up a new account whenever I get around to it, but I'm thinking maybe I should have two as well, and strictly just have pole dancers on one page and everybody else on my other. At the very least, I'm going to be very careful to make sure my pole pictures really are all friends only this time.
mizvix ·
slightly off topic..... fb privacy settings..... i'm only just starting to put up photos but have poler friends and wall chats about pole. I had all my settings on 'friends only'. I'm a high school teacher and although i'm happy with poling, and my boss and colleagues know about it ,i'm not prepared for my pupils and their parents to know! A friend's new gf looked me up and could see some of my pics - she isn't one of my fb friends. SO.... if you want to keep things private check that your 'profile pics' are also listed as private. It isn't one of the main options. if you 'customise' your settings, its the 'edit album privacy' link (really small at the bottom of the first section).
Kobajo84 ·
I just have the one account. I'm pretty selective on who is on my FB because it has my family and close friends. There are people on there from SV but its mostly people I've known for a long time and talked to for over a year through SV. I will sometimes block my Dad and some of the male family members from videos I feel are a little too risque, but other than that- I have all my pics open for sharing. My thoughts are, you can either like it or don't look at it. 😜
MelCat ·
I'm pretty fortunate as my life has always been in the arts, so it's a bit more understood. I remember when I was in college there was a hushed talk of me poling as it was a tabboo subject, but I was very open about it and they accepted it. Now the company I dance for is actually under a director who used to be a Vegas performer and we've even chatted about how she had a show where she had to learn how to pole (and how it was the strongest her arms have ever been in her life!) But I know Facebook is started to be poked and prodded for what is and is not acceptable to share, especially depending on your particular career, so if you're fortunate and live a life where people accept arts as arts then you don't need the hassle of a second account. If you've ever had trouble up to this point with posting pole related things on your Facebook, you might want to consider a separate page if you plan to up that content :)
I'm sorry to ask but...what is a CKR??
Sam I am ·
Cross Knee Release
