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Acceptable and goes with the territory or unacceptable with wider implications eg mental health of young players
I’m concerned about Arsenal situation for example. Their keeper last night closed down his twitter account following abuse from “fans” following his howler when conceding the vital 2nd goal.
Personally I’ve got no time for it and feel that the football authorities need to step in...
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Social Media - Abuse Of Players on 11:05 - Dec 23 with 1466 views
Anything racial is obviously unacceptable, but the players lap up praise and retweets/likes etc when they are playing well, they need to take the rough with the smooth. If they cannot take it, get off social media - it’s as simple as that.
Social Media - Abuse Of Players on 11:09 - Dec 23 by Catullus
Criticism is fine, abuse is not. Social media can be a nightmare. The internet has way too many faceless, cowardly, loonies.
Agreed. But at what point does criticism become abuse? Can you differentiate one from the other? Is there a line that can be crossed?
It cannnot be acceptable for a so called fan to be able to abuse a player when a mistake is made. Or bad performances. And then to remain anonymous without accountability. It’s cowardly.
In this modern and dangerous world of social media, you only need to read comments on subjects like COVID-19 to realise that there aren’t intelligence tests before you’re allowed to express your views to the world ...
Only an idiot would eat a turkey curry on Christmas day
Social Media - Abuse Of Players on 11:09 - Dec 23 by Catullus
Criticism is fine, abuse is not. Social media can be a nightmare. The internet has way too many faceless, cowardly, loonies.
Broadly agree but only if you have the same philosophy with all other social media contacts including friends, family etc - so if you would openly critique/criticise a family member/friend on social media then celebs/players etc would be the same.
Otherwise it falls into the “if you’ve got nothing supportive/constructive to say scroll on by (or for us older ones say nothing!)”
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Social Media - Abuse Of Players on 14:17 - Dec 23 with 1361 views
Social Media - Abuse Of Players on 14:17 - Dec 23 by onehunglow
Posting about their incompetence is ok by me but not personal defamation.
Suggesting a person is incompetent at their job would surely fall under the umbrella of personal defamation though.
There can’t be many jobs where you’re routinely given personal performance appraisals from the general public. It can’t be easy being a sportsman in the days of social media.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Social Media - Abuse Of Players on 15:12 - Dec 23 by Highjack
Suggesting a person is incompetent at their job would surely fall under the umbrella of personal defamation though.
There can’t be many jobs where you’re routinely given personal performance appraisals from the general public. It can’t be easy being a sportsman in the days of social media.
No. One can have a perfectly moral,decent peron at a job who is out of his/her comfort zone;a person to whom a job is not best suited of him/her.Life abounds with these people. They are in a majority in many places.
An obnoxious,offensive individual can be totally brilliant at the job,eg,Alex Ferguson.
So,gents,you are both utterly wrong.
As for abuse,talk to any shop worker,transport worker,police officer and indeed NHS staff and you will learn that people in thee key jobs often get abuse which is off the scale.
For a footballer ,who is often on obscene money to be called names which Keith wouldn't want me to append,is not exactly the stuff which should horrify us.
Far greater abuse /defamation has been found on this site in its previous incarnation .
Social Media - Abuse Of Players on 15:36 - Dec 23 by onehunglow
No. One can have a perfectly moral,decent peron at a job who is out of his/her comfort zone;a person to whom a job is not best suited of him/her.Life abounds with these people. They are in a majority in many places.
An obnoxious,offensive individual can be totally brilliant at the job,eg,Alex Ferguson.
So,gents,you are both utterly wrong.
As for abuse,talk to any shop worker,transport worker,police officer and indeed NHS staff and you will learn that people in thee key jobs often get abuse which is off the scale.
For a footballer ,who is often on obscene money to be called names which Keith wouldn't want me to append,is not exactly the stuff which should horrify us.
Far greater abuse /defamation has been found on this site in its previous incarnation .
So--Fred Woodman-a lovely guy (probably) but ...
You’ve missed the point as you often do
If you walked up to a policeman or a doctor and called him a coward to his face you’d expect repercussions
And yet you consider it’s acceptable it seems on a football forum ? That can’t be right can it
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Social Media - Abuse Of Players on 16:28 - Dec 23 with 1271 views
Social Media - Abuse Of Players on 15:36 - Dec 23 by onehunglow
No. One can have a perfectly moral,decent peron at a job who is out of his/her comfort zone;a person to whom a job is not best suited of him/her.Life abounds with these people. They are in a majority in many places.
An obnoxious,offensive individual can be totally brilliant at the job,eg,Alex Ferguson.
So,gents,you are both utterly wrong.
As for abuse,talk to any shop worker,transport worker,police officer and indeed NHS staff and you will learn that people in thee key jobs often get abuse which is off the scale.
For a footballer ,who is often on obscene money to be called names which Keith wouldn't want me to append,is not exactly the stuff which should horrify us.
Far greater abuse /defamation has been found on this site in its previous incarnation .
So--Fred Woodman-a lovely guy (probably) but ...
The stats currently show that Fred Woodman is the most competent keeper in the entire football league...
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Social Media - Abuse Of Players on 11:33 - Dec 23 by Thornburyswan
Broadly agree but only if you have the same philosophy with all other social media contacts including friends, family etc - so if you would openly critique/criticise a family member/friend on social media then celebs/players etc would be the same.
Otherwise it falls into the “if you’ve got nothing supportive/constructive to say scroll on by (or for us older ones say nothing!)”
I ditched facebook and nearly all social media a long while back, too much nonsense to wade through.
Of course I still wade through the nonsense on here, some of it I post. Why does every post have to be supportive? If someone is wrong why can't they be told? It's not abusive to say someone is wrong and post your opinion about why they are wrong?
If anyone can't take being told they are wrong, the internet is not the place for them!
Social Media - Abuse Of Players on 17:07 - Dec 23 by Catullus
I ditched facebook and nearly all social media a long while back, too much nonsense to wade through.
Of course I still wade through the nonsense on here, some of it I post. Why does every post have to be supportive? If someone is wrong why can't they be told? It's not abusive to say someone is wrong and post your opinion about why they are wrong?
If anyone can't take being told they are wrong, the internet is not the place for them!
I have a facebook account mainly to keep in touch with ex colleagues and family .It's better by far than wading through the filth that was prevalent on PS .I lost far more friends on PS than facebook and twitter combined mainly as others read what you post,misunderstand or simply pervert or twist what you say and it causes much harm.
If the likes like Fred can't take some net questioning of his goal keeping ability he should simply avoid such forums. After all, he 'll be off in a few months unless our clowns for owners decide to actually buy him. I will boil my head of they do.
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