No one asked, but Here’s the problem.
From the 1950s until about 2007/8, if you had a problem with a coach or a player you had these choices.
1. Hold it in.
2. Talk about it to your close friends/family.
3. Post it in fairly limited access places like chat rooms and message boards like this one.
4. Drink until the thoughts went away.
In the age of Twitter/Facebook/Instagram you have these choices.
1. All the above.
2. Post your sane and insane thoughts to possibly millions of people.
I have 277 followers on Twitter. Pretty measly. I had 202,000 impressions in the last 28 days. For some (mostly) anonymous, non-famous dude from Kentucky, thats pretty crazy.
So, social media is a cesspool, but that’s just half the problem.
From the 1950s until around 2007/8, if you heard or read something that someone else said or write, you had the following choices.
1. Ignore it.
2. Write a letter to the newspaper
3. Talk to the person face-to-face.
Now, every person who disagrees with something another person say has to make sure the rest of the work ALSO knows their opinion on the matter. Then, for better or for worse, That leads MORE people to give/share/react with their opinion, potentially causing more and more interactions with the possibility of turning ugly.
If everyone didn’t think that they needed to defend or react to everything, life would be much better. If some dumbass redneck types something negative about a coach, player, fan, whatever, it would be better to just let them shout into the void and not make a big deal about everything. There is now a mouthpiece for anyone with a phone to express their thoughts, but we don’t have to answer every call.
(No one should be @ing players, but I think that’s a very limited number of fans)