Apparently, some of our lunatic fringe (nothing - I hope, to do with this forum) are using twitter to slag off players and performances. They are actually dumb enough to include the player's twitter user name so the comments go straight onto their timeline These rumblings of discontent that many on here are feeling - and reacting to, are being replicated elsewhere - but what a ******ed way of doing it
It really has nothing to do with 'importance'! I find it a useful tool to keep up with areas of specific interest of mine. Football, cricket, local events and weather, pubs and beer, birding etc. There are those who see number of followers as a status symbol - like pre-pubescent schoolgirls having more facebook friends than their peers - indeed, Stan Collymore has highlighted companies who "sell" extra twitter followers but I'm not doing for status reasons. Each to their own, but all I'm saying is some people use it in an unwise, even counter productive way. Not very bright.
Not disagreeing with you CC Call me old grumpy fecker but facebook, twitter and other "Social media" sites, to me are a waste of space partly for some of the reasons you highlighted.
Absolutely spot on. My sentiments entirely, it is possibly the worst invention ever making nobodies feel that they have some importance when all they do is talk sh*te!
Which makes it no different to many other platforms, such as radio phone-ins, letters to the editor in newspapers, blogs, etc.
I do see Cromer's point. Used sensibly, I'm sure it's a useful tool, but it's not for me. I can find out all I need from other sources which don't include people swearing at each other or telling me what they had for breakfast.
I am sure, if used in a certain way, such sites probably have some value but in many cases I see it as "nobodies" with an opinion, followed by other "nobodies" that may have something in common, other than being a nobody
I agree its pathetic tweeting player having a go. Hardly going to want them to play better is it? Although social media has its cons there is also pros to it. I worked for a charity on a social media project last year which was fairly successful and raised the awareness. It can be useful for keeping in touch with friends. I agree though, shame about the wannabes on there.
Social media is very good for complaining when a company has let you down, to bypass call centres or just keep in touch. Pleasurewood Hills manages their Twitter and Facebook very well, T-Mobile are really good at sorting problems via a Tweet and Direct Message, chatting to David McNally for example too. Slagging people and companies off via any of them is out of order though and doesn't help anyone
No Twitter for me either, probably my age, but if I want to contact my friends then I ring or email them, and like Thai, I don't have anything that interesting to say most of the time! I had a facebook account for a while simply because one of my kids sent me photo's via that media, but other people seemed to think I wanted them to comment, then some loose brain decided to become abusive for no reason, it got stupid so I closed it. Each to their own I guess!
