Is social media ruining football ?

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

So the OP moans about social.media ruining football by complaining about it on a football social media platform.

Simply switch off the content you don't like. Don't watch the YouTube channels. Don't join Facebook football groups,
For too mamy.people social media controls their life rather than people being in control of their life.

 

[Bantamgaz]

I actually dont mind young uns posting stuff at games if they have gone thats the youth of today bit when you have grade A cunts like Goldbridge and Howson making money then thats what sickens me :(

I mean look at that twat TY at Aftv any folk with any kind of respect would binned years ago , the man is fooking embarrassing but because he gets clicks they keep him going

 

[kaz7]

It is the wumming that pisses me off more , if we just talked football without that we would all be happier

I only use here for city now, var and pigmol has stopped me enjoying other games so i dont talk about or watch them

 

[halfcenturyup]

It is the wumming that pisses me off more , if we just talked football without that we would all be happier

I only use here for city now, var and pigmol has stopped me enjoying other games so i dont talk about or watch them

A bit like VAR, it's here to stay. And football will survive with both, I suppose :)

 

[BlueHammer85]

So the OP moans about social.media ruining football by complaining about it on a football social media platform.

Simply switch off the content you don't like. Don't watch the YouTube channels. Don't join Facebook football groups,
For too mamy.people social media controls their life rather than people being in control of their life.

well, yeh. i've deleted facebook and twitter. but there's still a conversation to be had about social media's role in football and society as a whole.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

I think people are quick to make this about age - it's really not. My parents both use social media way more than I do - the only ones I use are this forum, YouTube and LinkedIn (the latter only because it's part of my job). I know early 20s people at work who don't have any social media profiles at all. I see absolutely no correlation between age and social media use - perhaps with the exception of the much older generation who never moved onto using smartphones at all. There seems to be as many over-50s on Facebook as there are young people on TikTok. It's just horses for courses. Nearly all demographics have become dopamined to the hilt by the poison they've picked but some want to pretend it's only a problem for one particular set of people on which they would like to blame all of society's ills.

Social media - like all tools - is really what you make of it. Unfortunately, too many people use it in ways that are conducive to self-harm, though not always knowingly. On the one hand, I think consuming the right kind of social media has made me much more wise to certain aspects of the world we live in - but like Pandora's box it comes at the expense of occupying my time, occasionally leaving me misinformed, and on rare occasions inflaming emotions that are unhealthy.

I would say some social media use is fine - in moderation - and only when subscribing to reliable feeds. I try to only follow YouTube channels that cite sources (which a lot of them do these days). Also try and not get caught in death loops or doom-scrolling short-form content. Easier said than done.

The election season is going to be very difficult for me in this respect and I expect to utterly fail at moderating my use when the US and UK elections are happening.

 

[Keeper!]

I think people are quick to make this about age - it's really not. My parents both use social media way more than I do - the only ones I use are this forum, YouTube and LinkedIn (the latter only because it's part of my job). I know early 20s people at work who don't have any social media profiles at all. I see absolutely no correlation between age and social media use - perhaps with the exception of the much older generation who never moved onto using smartphones at all. There seems to be as many over-50s on Facebook as there are young people on TikTok. It's just horses for courses. Nearly all demographics have become dopamined to the hilt by the poison they've picked but some want to pretend it's only a problem for one particular set of people on which they would like to blame all of society's ills.

Social media - like all tools - is really what you make of it. Unfortunately, too many people use it in ways that are conducive to self-harm, though not always knowingly. On the one hand, I think consuming the right kind of social media has made me much more wise to certain aspects of the world we live in - but like Pandora's box it comes at the expense of occupying my time, occasionally leaving me misinformed, and on rare occasions inflaming emotions that are unhealthy.

I would say some social media use is fine - in moderation - and only when subscribing to reliable feeds. I try to only follow YouTube channels that cite sources (which a lot of them do these days). Also try and not get caught in death loops or doom-scrolling short-form content. Easier said than done.

The election season is going to be very difficult for me in this respect and I expect to utterly fail at moderating my use when the US and UK elections are happening.

Social media is simply the new newspaper, television, radio or conversation in the pub that was.

Again it's up to the individual, for me people are becoming weaker by the day, scared to make up their own mind up on any subject and more than happy to go with the flow.

Opinionated people have always had issues but even more so because of social media.

 

[Phil1]

Social media is simply the new newspaper, television, radio or conversation in the pub that was.

Again it's up to the individual, for me people are becoming weaker by the day, scared to make up their own mind up on any subject and more than happy to go with the flow.

Your last paragraph is entwined with the thread topic though.
People are becoming how you describe in part due to SM.
It’s easy for our generation to say stay off it but for those born into the technological world of today they will know nothing else.

It won’t end well.

 

[Nevizade]

What really pisses me off about football social media, is the amount of people who view a player as brilliant or shit and nothing inbetween. For example on Twitter in the last 24 hours we've had people going on about Van Dijk and if he's the best ever PL centre half (he isn't). People in favour have been saying how overrated the likes of Terry, ferdinand, Kompany, vidic etc. were. People against have been using the same argument saying he wouldn't last five minutes against the likes of Shearer, Aguero, Suarez etc.

It's possible for all of the above players to be very good, with a slight preference for one over the other(s).

 

[Keeper!]

Your last paragraph is entwined with the thread topic though.
People are becoming how you describe in part due to SM.
It’s easy for our generation to say stay off it but for those born into the technological world of today they will know nothing else.

It won’t end well.

Always been the same, strength of character is a dying thing and it's hot healthy.

Humans are becoming mentally weaker by the day, simply get in to the real world and enjoy it, sadly many people simply don't now what the real world is.

FFS spending a fortune to go to a game or a concert and people are watching it through their phone, pathetic for me.

Another bug bear, having a night out and telling everyone on social media "it's the best night ever", well if it is, get off the %ucking mobile and enjoy it.