Athletes and Twitter…

With media evolving constantly everyday we have more and more access to various inside information and into peoples daily lives. One of the big pieces here is being able to engage and see what goes on in athletes lives and how they act. A big topic we all have heard about is Johnny Football and his antics off the field, we knew about his habits even before he made it in the NFL. There would be various photos of Johnny Manziel posted what it seemed daily of his various night activities, in doing so this hurt his public image and credibility among his peers and current NFL players. Many combated back saying how the young quarterback needed to grow up and learn to stay out of the lime light. But this is obviously easier said then done as we have seen so many other times with established athletes hashing it out via twitter. Overall the involvements on athletes through twitter can be positive or negative, but as we see the negative posts are always the ones that get the most attention. When athletes discuss helping charities and other events of that nature they are over looker, but when two high profile players hash it out over the web then it blows up and everyone knows about it. Athletes overall need to monitor what they are putting out on social media, such as twitter, and need to be conscious to filter their posts/responses. Athletes get caught up in the moment of the game and that translates to their reactions on twitter towards others, whether its fights with players or even some fans. They have to realize that there are many younger players who look up to them and see this behavior and they need to be better role models for them. Because as I said earlier there are many good acts that athletes talk about on twitter, but they are easily over looked when a scuffle between two high profile athletes erupt because they are not conducting themselves in a professional manner.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *