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Facebook, Twitter and the likes are more popular than ever. MySpace, we hardly knew ye.
Anyway, young people make a lot of mistakes. Facebook and Twitter seem like they're custom made for youthful mistakes. It may not be any more than an embarrassment for the family of a young person that posts a picture or a message that is questionable. When a post is made by a Gopher football player, it doesn't go unnoticed. I don't have to think too hard about current players and recruits that probably regret some of the things they posted in the heat of the moment. I'm not a subscriber to Facebook or Twitter, but plenty of people have posted here what they've written. Brandon Kirksey is the latest, but recently, there have been posts from Bryant Allen, Troy Stoudemire and probably others that have been commented on this site. I would guess these guys regret their decision.
So, in a post earlier in December, someone wrote that Coach Kill had a strict policy on Social Networking. Does anyone know what it is? I'd agree with limitations on posting. To me, I think it detracts from the player and the team. Of course, I'm in my mid forties, and some may say it's unrealistic and out of touch to put restrictions on these sites. I'd be curious to know what others think.
 

CWCWCW said:
Facebook, Twitter and the likes are more popular than ever. MySpace, we hardly knew ye.
Anyway, young people make a lot of mistakes. Facebook and Twitter seem like they're custom made for youthful mistakes. It may not be any more than an embarrassment for the family of a young person that posts a picture or a message that is questionable. When a post is made by a Gopher football player, it doesn't go unnoticed. I don't have to think too hard about current players and recruits that probably regret some of the things they posted in the heat of the moment. I'm not a subscriber to Facebook or Twitter, but plenty of people have posted here what they've written. Brandon Kirksey is the latest, but recently, there have been posts from Bryant Allen, Troy Stoudemire and probably others that have been commented on this site. I would guess these guys regret their decision.
So, in a post earlier in December, someone wrote that Coach Kill had a strict policy on Social Networking. Does anyone know what it is? I'd agree with limitations on posting. To me, I think it detracts from the player and the team. Of course, I'm in my mid forties, and some may say it's unrealistic and out of touch to put restrictions on these sites. I'd be curious to know what others think.
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As a 40 something...I am old enough to feel old fashioned and young enough to understand the appeal of social networking. My take is that Tweeting and Facebook will be studied years from now for the negative impact it had on our society.

Young folk will most likely disagree with me and scoff, but there is nothing good that will ever come from txt's, tweets, etc.. I see it having a direct impact on common courtesy, common sense, and direct human interaction, almost every day.

Young people are dumb enough by design, they really don't need a network to prove it to the world.

GopherHole is the complete opposite. GopherHole is great.
 

tikited said:
As a 40 something...I am old enough to feel old fashioned and young enough to understand the appeal of social networking. My take is that Tweeting and Facebook will be studied years from now for the negative impact it had on our society.

Young folk will most likely disagree with me and scoff, but there is nothing good that will ever come from txt's, tweets, etc.. I see it having a direct impact on common curtesy, common sense, and direct human interaction, almost every day.

Young people are dumb enough by design, they really don't need a network to prove it to the world.

GopherHole is the complete opposite. GopherHole is great
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right on tikited. GopherHole is GREAT, it is the commentors on GopherHole that suck!!! :)
 

I am just happy that I was dry for over 20 years before Twitter and Facebook became a big deal. I have no doubt that my exploits in inebriation would have gone viral!
 



It is an interesting sociological phenomenon. Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, our lives were all about exclusion and privacy--in other words, we wanted to be by ourselves doing things we wanted to do without having the rest of the world know about what was going on. Now, it appears to be exactly the opposite, where some believe that even the most banal is worthy of some type of recognition.
 

Five elections from now, we'll probably see a presidential candidate's campaign derailed after someone digs up something he tweeted when he was 19.
 

13 Lined Ground Squirrel said:
Five elections from now, we'll probably see a presidential candidate's campaign derailed after someone digs up something he tweeted when he was 19.
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+1 though I don't think it will take that long. That said, I find Twitter very useful as a news source. It may not be useful to follow the banal postings of college athletes, but to have news from multiple sources all pulled into the same place is great. Facebook is great for keeping up with folks you'd otherwise lose all track of. That said, folks do need to use more common sense before posting their rantings.
 

From a different era. Have no use for Facebook or Twitter but I can see where many people would use these to communicate with friends. Just as puzzling to me as an athlete posting something private or potentially embarrassing are the people who take the time to follow these messages and posts. I'm an avid Gopher fan and love GH, but why would a person take the time to find and read what some 20 year old jock, second rate entertainer, politician, etc puts out there? Seems sort of creepy to me like there's something seriously lacking in your own life.
 



howeda7 said:
+1 though I don't think it will take that long. That said, I find Twitter very useful as a news source. It may not be useful to follow the banal postings of college athletes, but to have news from multiple sources all pulled into the same place is great. Facebook is great for keeping up with folks you'd otherwise lose all track of. That said, folks do need to use more common sense before posting their rantings.
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I have a Twitter account (and I'm 57), but I mainly use it to follow news outlets. I may post some as part of my work, but it would be rare. Howeda, I agree it's the contents of the tweets more than the fact that technological tools like Twitter and Facebook exist that is a bit odd to me. Social networking in and of itself is a pretty valuable item.
 

I've had facebook since I was 18 and have never posted embarrassing or stupid crap. It's not about the medium it's about the authors.
 


There's just so much insipid melodrama that seems inherent to social networking over the internet like that, the most recent high profile examples of that being Sarah Palin's daughters and Ozzie Guillen's son's behavior on Facebook and Twitter respectively.

I like White Sox pitcher Matt Thornton's take on the whole stupid dust-up.

"I'm not a big fan of the social media, personally," Thornton said on ESPN 1000's "Talking Baseball." "I don't tweet. I don't Facebook. I don't like it in sports at all. I don't think it's necessary at all. ... What happened here with Oney tweeting what he did, that's crossing a pretty big line in my personal opinion. That's something that's gotta be addressed quickly and taken care of and snuffed out real fast. Anytime you bring clubhouse stuff out in the open, I don't care what it is, it's that person's personal business and also the clubhouse's personal business. That's the first time all this stuff has really irritated me. It doesn't matter what's true and what's not true, I don't care about that. The fact that anything was said at all is ridiculous. It's definitely gotta be addressed and taken care of real quick around here."

Right on, Matt. I'm right there with ya.
 



Ahhhh Facebook
 

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