SPOKANE, Wash.—Members of a local men’s only Facebook group were tired of the negativity and toxic arguments they were seeing on their news feeds and decided to make a change.
Founder of the page, Chris Morse said he created MTFO, Man the Family Up, when he was ready to delete his Facebook page, but decided to try and use social media to the community in a better direction.
“Facebook was just a dumpster fire. It was politics, and you just couldn’t do anything productive on there. I just decided to kind of create my vision, or what I wanted to see,” said Morse.
Morse said his whole idea was to bring back kind of that old school handshake feel in America.
The Facebook group grew quickly, it currently has more than 46,000 members.
Those members get together and make their community a better place.
They have come together to give cars away to single parents, and a group of the Facebook members is building a wheelchair ramp for somebody in need.
Every few months the group chooses a local business or a local neighborhood to flood with financial support, and this Saturday it’s the Garland District.
“Basically, what we do is try to organize as much as the MTFU traffic as we can to go support these local businesses and put the money in the pockets of the people in this community that are going to hire people, give people jobs,” said Morse.
Their flood the business event is all day in the Garland District Saturday.
Morse said that even though their Facebook group is only men, their events are open to everyone, so they’d love to see everyone go out to join them in supporting local businesses.