March Madness and Social Media

Its no secret that social media is apart of everything now whether it be for fun, or as a marketingt tool etc, its there and will be there for a long time. The bad part of social media is that soemtimes things get leaked or get out before the party it affects knows about the news. A lot of times you hear about professional athletes and coaches are asked, how did you find out about this news, and probably more than 75% of the time there answer is through twitter, or the news or something media related. Sadly thats how we communicate now for the most part, whether its texting, tweeting, facebooking its the new way of communicating. Especially tweeting now, twitter is one of the biggest and fastest growing social media network in the country. During the super bowl, world series, any major sporting event it just gets even bigger. During the NCAA Tournament or the term March Madness as the mouth of March has been dubed, social media activity was through the roof. We want news or stats or up to the minute scores all you need to do is go on twitter or some social media network. I use social media I have a facebook and twitte, and I think its a good tool to use, but there is a line, an invisable line that sometimes people cross. We have to remember about face to face, talking it out or talking to one another about things. Sure twitter and all that is good for like I said scores, new information but when coaches and players find out thing via twitter or social medias before hearing it from the cats mouth thats where the line is. Coaches and players shouldnt find out about things through social medias, like the peyton manning story. Jim Irsay the Colts Owner tweets more than anyone, and sometimes its best to just not say anything. He was always tweeting about Peyton and stuff like that when the stuff should have been handled face to face in house behind closed dorrs not out in public. Soical media is a great tool when used the right way.