Thoughts on Interesting Twitter Related Incident at Mississippi State
by Nestor on Aug 27, 2011 11:09 AM PDT
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Mississippi State freshman D.J. Gardner has been dismissed by coach Rick Stansbury for "repeated actions deemed detrimental to the team."
Gardner, a 6-foot-7 guard from Okolona, Miss., was expected to be redshirted this season. The freshman apparently wasn't happy with that decision, posting profanity-laced remarks on his Twitter account, according to The Clarion-Ledger.
Gardner's Twitter account has since been deleted. Gardner is the fourth Bulldogs player to leave the program in nine months -- joining Twany Beckham, John Riek and Elgin Bailey.
Stansbury had banned his players from using the social messaging website last season after Ravern Johnson used Twitter to question his role on the team.
The ban was lifted after the season. Stansbury hasn't said if it will return.
The article also mentions how this is not the first time the Mississippi State hoops program has had to deal with Twitter related issues. The story is interesting and it brings up the issue of whether universities around the country are being smart about the use of social media by their athletes.
We have had our issue with Twitter. Recently P noted about an ill advised Twitter post from Fauria. There has been previous instances on Twitter related posts from our athletes that have been blogged about here on BN. I don't really care for coaches banning their players from using social media. I think the players can be coached up on how to use it smartly, so they can navigate through today's media space. Few tips that instantly come to mind:
- Student-athletes should be given simple guidelines on how they conduct themselves in an online public place.
- One of the codes of conduct should include specific provisions barring student-athletes from attacking any university employees via Twitter. I think this is something the academic faculty should consider as well warning the students taking their classes that personal attacks on faculty will simply not be tolerated. If anything it's a good learning opportunity for students, who should know that in real life, they would not be able to hold on to a job, if their employers found out they were being attacked by employees on Twitter.
- All student athletes should protect their Twitter account and not allow any members of the traditional media, who have proven to be hostile to interests of the program (we know who those guys are at UCLA).
In short, I think banning use of social media is not the smart way to go. Schools should focus on developing some sensible rules and then make all students well aware of them and also make it clear the consequences of breaking those rules.
GO BRUINS.
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This is why people need to start using Google+
The improved sharing model allows you to specify who your posts go to. It’s one thing to tweet and complain to the public, it’s another to circulate it to just your inner circle of friends.
Yeah, have been trying out Google+ as well
We have BN on Google+ actually. But still unclear how it can be helpful to this community in a way that is not possible via Facebook. Definitely open to it and intrigued by it. But if you have thoughts would love to read it.
Well, no one I know is using Google+
We have the accounts, we just don’t use them, so anything written there definitely stays quiet for a while.
I used it really enthusiastically for first few days
But then I still couldn’t figure out what I was getting out of it that I don’t get via other social media outlets. I haven’t closed my mind to it though.
I don't Google+
Even though I have the strictest security settings, my gf googled my name to see what would come up and I was quite surprised to read a comment string from like the 1 post I’ve made on google+ along with the comments of some of my friends. Nothing like that from my much more extensive Facebook postings..
well it's likely you addressed that post to the "Public" circle, which means it's searchable by anyone.
Typically you’ll want to pick “Your circles”, or “Extended circles” (which mimics facebook’s “Friends and friends of friends”)
As for it’s usage, Google+ is very much a cleaned up Facebook clone. In the future it’ll likely heavily integrate with google products (docs, gmail, spreadsheets, picasa, etc), so that could be convenient for major collaboration projects.
Between trusting my data with Google and trusting it with Facebook, I’ve heard many bad things about Facebook not respecting user privacy but Google has always had an unspoken policy about not being “evil”, which I hope to trust.
I checked
It was just on my close friends circle…
I guess I also don’t want to have all my data with one online source. They have most of my emails, some of my docs, some of my pics, even some of my CC information… I trust google about as much as I trust apple not to track me (even anonymously). There’s often a disconnect between engineers and the public. What engineers see as a great tool that helps the consumer, the consumer is all too likely to see as threatening of their privacy
i didn't know you had a choice
I thought you had to have your real name, no just part of it or an alias…
It bears emphasis, the best punishment in many instances for student atheletes who cannot follow social media policies
is windsprint therapy.
LOL. Too true.
Instead of suspending players for a given amount of time, they should have to undergo X “miles of windsprint therapy.”
by KnudsenRockne on Aug 29, 2011 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Publishing something to the world at large is not a good thing
We recently won a case when a kid swore up and down that he had not been engaged in Activity X but had bragged on Facebook about doing that very thing. Some enterprising person employed by the corporate defendant got copies or pictures or whatever they’re called of the facebook admissions which he saved and then shoved down the plaintiff’s throat at the right time.
Beyond the fact that you effectively waive any privacy rights you might think you have, the fact of the matter is that 99.99% of the stuff people post in the social media is boring. Nobody (not even your mom) cares that you got up and had breakfast then brushed your teeth and then went to the gym.
The short version – anything interesting will eventually be used against you, and anything that can’t be used against you is stuff that no one cares about.
+Googleplex
Everything you share cannot be unshared and is available for use against you. It boggles the mind how seemingly innocuous information can be used to damage your reputation or manipulate you.
And it can be used against you not just in the courtroom or by employers: Colleagues can use it to compete for promotions; competitors can use it for snaking accounts from you; exes can use it for revenge (potentially destroying future relationships); thieves can use it for ID theft (they say all you need is a name, a birthday and a zip code and you can track anyone down).
There is little advantage to giving your info to strangers. (which is why I lie on store club cards ;)
by KnudsenRockne on Aug 29, 2011 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
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