Today everyone has
a smartphone for the most part and everyone has social media at their
fingertips and anything can be said on there whenever someone has an Internet
connection via twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Yik Yak. Also in today’s sports
world every professional or college sports team has a social media page for
advertising and get news out there for the team, but at the same time all of
these pages can have a negative impact. These teams can post things and it can
be on purpose or on accident from coaches getting fired to team pages tweet out
negative things about other teams by accident.
I
personally play on a college sports team here at Merrimack and my coach always
tells us to be careful what we post on social media because it does not only impact
us but it impacts our program. Another thing he states is that there should not
be any pictures with alcohol on our social media because athletes and alcohol
do not mix. But we all know that this is not true about the alcohol in the
athlete’s lives. Another thing he states is that there should not be any
negative pictures or statuses about the program or us because when we try to
get into the real world it may hold us back with getting a job.
In
Bosnia the head soccer coach of FK Drina Zvornik got fired through Facebook.
According to Sean Swabby of The Bleacher Report “The coach was scrolling
through his Facebook timeline and he read the link that read he was fired.” I
personally think that this is the worse way that someone can get fired and in
my opinion the team lost a lot of creditability and professionalism. They were
in last place at the time and coaches get fired all the time because of poor
performances but it is usually done in person. After the coach found out he was
fired he commented on the shared link and said “THANKS FOR THE NOTICE” which I
found to be very professional because he kept his cool and did not become
negative on social media and went down to their level.
We
all know that all of the Major League baseball teams have twitter accounts to
keep fans updated with news and injury reports, which is a quick and easy way
to get information out into the world without T.V. or a news station. The Texas Rangers a well-known baseball team
Tweeted “Fire Charlie #bye” according to Thomas Duffy of The Bleacher Report
(see picture below). Obviously the
person who was part of the social media department of the Rangers got fired for
this. The tweet was about Head Coach Charlie Strong of University of Texas who
got their Asses handed to them 50-7 by TCU. The Rangers released a statement
that apologized to the University and their coach. They also stated that the
person who posted this was unemployed immediately. Clearly the person who
posted this wanted to post this on their personal account but the fucked up and
made a huge mistake that cost them their job.
Now
a day’s people hide behind social media like the FK Drina Zvornik staff they
could have told the coach in person and it would have been less embarrassing
for both parties. I personally believe that today’s generation hides behind
social media and many cyber-bullying cases are brought up. Also going back to
social media and the Rangers like my coach said whatever you post will come and
bite you in the ass like the social media employee in for the Rangers. In the
end social media can destroy teams and make them look like villains rather than
heroes.
Duffy, Tho. "Rangers Accidentally Post
Tweet About Firing Texas Coach Charlie Strong." Bleacher Report.
N.p., 2015. Web. 16 Oct. 2015.
Swabby, Sean. "FK Drina Zvornik Manager
Firds out He's Fired from Facebook." Bleacher Report.
Eurosport, 1 Oct. 2015. Web. 16 Oct. 2015.
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