How about prospective players deleting all social media accounts?
lionbaseball posted:How about prospective players deleting all social media accounts?
Akin to stopping teenage pregnancy by preaching abstinence.
Since I wrote my post 3 1/2 years ago, social is now so ingrained in every form of communication that it's impossible to stop, e.g., even a text message can easily be tweeted, posted, timelined, etc. Texting and social has completely replaced the phone call.
Only three solutions:
- Education
- Configuring the mobile phone user's account so that it restricts all outgoing (which doesn't stop desktop or tablet use)
- Removing the mobile phone, which is what Coach Dawn Stanley does with her WBB team @ South Carolina.
And even with all that, it won't stop someone else tagging the player in a photo that may not be appropriate.
EDUCATE AND MONITOR.
joemktg posted:lionbaseball posted:How about prospective players deleting all social media accounts?
Akin to stopping teenage pregnancy by preaching abstinence.
Since I wrote my post 3 1/2 years ago, social is now so ingrained in every form of communication that it's impossible to stop, e.g., even a text message can easily be tweeted, posted, timelined, etc. Texting and social has completely replaced the phone call.
Only three solutions:
- Education
- Configuring the mobile phone user's account so that it restricts all outgoing (which doesn't stop desktop or tablet use)
- Removing the mobile phone, which is what Coach Dawn Stanley does with her WBB team @ South Carolina.
And even with all that, it won't stop someone else tagging the player in a photo that may not be appropriate.
EDUCATE AND MONITOR.
Agree. With the story I provided about my nephew, tagging was the problem. A good kid, having age appropriate fun, like we all had, is exposed to photo tagging. Very unfortunate; kids really need to be aware of their surroundings, which is education in itself. Thinking of consequences before acting.
fenwaysouth posted:RJM posted:Schilling has always had a big mouth. A majority of teammate's, coaches, management and fans have always considered him a jerk. He was once voted the least liked player in MLB. He should have had enough self awareness to stay away from social media.
Schilling wasn't content to be a multi milionaire ex ball player. He bankrupted himself with a failed video game company. His last chance was catching on again in baseball. Now he's blown that.
Sorry guys, I'm going to partially defend Schilling and his big ego and lack of self-awareness ....NOT his political views or public statements which he is entitled to make and ESPN is entitled to fire him. Ego got him in trouble as a broadcaster. Ego got him in trouble with his business ventures, but that is the nature of business...you have to fail to eventually succeed just like baseball. Ego did him well in professional baseball. Somebody will pick him up and put a microphone in front of him, whether or not he learned something is another matter entirely....I never said he was smart.
He may be the largest wind bag to ever put on a Red Sox uniform but he was magical in 2004. If he walked into my bar, I'd buy him a beer or two and tell him what an idiot he was for making those public s and leaving all that ESPN money on the table. Some of my best friends are idiot wind bags. This is nothing new.
Someday when he's not radioactive he will end up at MLB.tv, NESN, CSNE or possibly with Comcast Philadelphia.
lionbaseball posted:How about prospective players deleting all social media accounts?
My son created a nom de plume for his Facebook account when he went through recruiting. Even then he was careful and scrubbed it every day. Friends can post to your account. When he got to college he just didn't have time. His Facebook is relatively inactive.
My daughter stopped using Facebook during recruiting. She killed it when she started interviewing for prosecutor jobs.
Yesterday I was with a friend watching his son play. The dumbest participant in college social media came up in conversation, Joey Casselberry.