The youngster's behaviour is bad, but I think a dragging over the coals and a last warning may be sufficient. Didn't read it all mind you as my brain went numb. Usually believe in giving kids a chance to change.
Nah sorry Fran.........The lad is old enough to know right from wrong. Saying things in public and disgracing the very team that are trying to help you along. To me suggests that he is not worthy of our attention and efforts. Sometimes youngsters have to learn the hard-way.......Just like we had to do, it may be an old cliche but it is a fact. Sometimes I feel we molly coddle the young people too much!!
I know I am an old fart, but this obsession with twitter and facebook (other social media sites are available) is unhealthy. Why do people think others need to know exactly what they are doing and/or feeling at all times of the day and night? Its an opportunity for those with no life to foist their opinions on others. They should be out with their hula hoops, or climbing trees, or playing conkers or better still on a bike ride with their chums to the countryside, with a picnic of cloudy lemonade and jam sandwiches! Hurrah!
I don't know where to start. I'll just say that all the people criticising twitter don't seem to have a very good understanding of what it actually is.
Could that be because of the bad publicity this particular site has had do you think? Or the fact that it has made so many peoples lives a misery. What I am describing may indeed be in the minority but is a reality none the less.
Twitter is simply a method of communication not really any different to the telephone. In of itself it is not inherently good or bad it is as good or bad as the people using it. Twitter has been used for many good things such as helping to accelerate the social protests in Arab Spring countries that are now going through a democratic process as a result. It can also of course also also be used for anyone to spout useless and sometimes offensive drivel. However that is not twitter's fault, that is the responsibility of the person spouting the drivel. People like this need to be educated that once you put something out there on twitter et al it is in the public domain and cannot be taken back. Don't need to get rid of twitter we need to get rid of idiots, East London seems a good place to start right now...........
Blaming twitter is the equivalent of being beaten up buy a thug with with a cricket bat and blaming it on the bat.
If that's the case then you will recognise your own description of it as inaccurate. The whole point is you decide who to follow. If someone used it in the way you describe, to share what they're doing at all times of the day and night, it would be very annoying and nobody would choose to follow them. There is absolutely no opportunity to foist opinions on anyone who doesn't want to hear them. Indeed.
I agree that it has done some good. Uniting people in their fight for democracy is obviously a wonderful thing. But I don't agree that it's just another method of communication like the telephone. For 99% of people it's just a way of talking to yourself, passive-aggressively spewing about your "problems" or letting everyone know what you had for dinner. The only way that Twitter can actually be a useful means of communication is if you're a celebrity and there are lots of people who want to know what you have to say, but then for celebrities this is just another way of getting in the tabloids. If I was a footballer, I definitely would not use Twitter. Only bad could come of it.
Stick the youth team player concerned in a training session with the 1st team when they return after the summer break. Soon see what he's made of after that.
I don't need Twitter. I have an army of spies who trawl through looking for Saints related tweets and then posting articles on Not606 for me. Strangely, few of them are really very enlightening and lots of them are just gossip. If you substitute "this bloke down the pub told me" for "this was just tweeted by some bloke" then I think you have the measure of the veracity of most of it. And I don't share what I had for breakfast with anyone, so mind your own business.
Not the case, I have lots of real life friends on twitter and it's a common form of communication between us. Much like Facebook is to some people. Yep, but some of us enjoy the rumours.
I think you've hit the nail on the head SKTB. We seem to do that in this country. A man goes on the rampage with a pistol, we ban pistols. No wonder we're in such a sh*t state.
I have thought a lot about this, and have come to the conclusion that owning guns should be illegal. But I see your point.
prehistoric comment history repeating! That's like saying no good comes from the internet. A good example of twitter's usefulness is checking whether any train are delayed.
Well, for all of you who want to know what Katie Price is up to, I'm sure its a valuable tool! (I didn't think the internet would take off either) shh, don't tell anyone.
I agree that with you in that the immediate audience for Twitter et al is far greater than the telephone, but the telephone was and still is used to "spew out problems" or tell people what you had for dinner it's just you're only boring 1 person at a time! Something bad will only come of it if you or someone else makes, something bad come of it, but given that is a human nature topic, that is a different conversation entirely................................
