There is nonetheless an incredible buzz that surrounds social networking and the most up-to-date thing to hit the social network is the introduction of direct communication from celebrities and sports athletes. The wealthy and well-known now take to their Twitter to ‘tweet’ out against the press with stories that have been written about them and to confirm or deny the most up-to-date gossip. It is the very same for the sports social network globe. One superior example would be Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, as he has 1 of the most well-known Facebook Fan Pages in the world.
Phelps makes use of his fan pages on Facebook as an on the internet diary, as a forum to communicate with his millions of fans. science of sprinting talks about his individual experiences, shares videos of himself and uploads pictures of himself and photos of sponsorships he is involved with. Recently, when controversy struck Phelps and he created the headlines, he took to his Facebook to apologize to his fans.
It just shows how this new social network generation desires to be in a position to communicate with their sporting heroes, anything that was never doable in the previous. The sports social network also presents a new true time kind of communication that can react faster than the press. If a piece of actual time news appears on someone’s Twitter or other sports social network then it can rapidly spread across the internet just before the press has even identified out.
Not only sports news, but not too long ago the private news of sports personalities has also been appearing, straight from the character themselves. Not so extended ago Lance Armstrong informed his million fans worldwide that his girlfriend had given birth to their son, Max. The proud father then went on to show off images of his newborn and all this has been made doable with social networking.
Though on the internet social networking is only in its infancy, it is uncomplicated to see how quickly it has adapted and how a sports social network can now bypass the media entirely and permit for sport athletes to communicate straight to their fans in a way they want to.
Shaquille O’Neal a player for Cleveland Cavaliers is also a further athlete who is not shy to sport social network internet sites. With more than two million followers on Twitter, this sport celebrity speaks each day about his thoughts on news in the sport world. A handful of months ago he even shared his thoughts with the on the internet world relating to an NBA trade and even answered queries straight to his fans.
General it is fascinating to see where social networking technology will end up taking us, specially within the sports business. For now it offers a fascinating window into the private lives of our celebrity -obsessed culture and shows no signs of slowing down just yet.