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As social media gets more and more sophisticated the more barbaric it becomes. For those that are doing a job it is a useful tool. You have Face book, text messaging, Twitter, and vines within twitter, all that have morphed into a hazard if not used the right way.
Last July at the Governor’s Cup Luncheon held at the Cardinal in Simpsonville, Kentucky the University of Louisville head football coach Charlie Strong while on the podium uttered a profound statement about social media. He said - “social media will lead to the downfall of this country.” Though I made a passing reference to the statement in print, this writer thought the comment was a stretch..Perhaps, likewise the rest of the media thought the same thing because no one else made mention of it. Often when things like that are allowed to slip by it’s “who’s ox is being gored.”
Recently when Andrew Wiggins announced his decision to attend Kansas University He received ninety nasty text messages within a minute, no doubt from fans of competing schools. So sad from those nutbuckets. This is a eighteen year kid that is making a choice that will effect the rest of his life. No doubt he would’ve looked good in blue and white but that was his choice to make. Life goes on.
When we are speaking of the downfall of this country, we don’t know how Strong meant the statement. Did he mean the decay of the moral fiber of the country? Did he mean the financial structure of the country? Was he expressing his frustration in the world of recruiting football players. No doubt the profoundness of what he said wasn’t akin to a purported 1954 cold war utterance of Nikita Khruschev - “We’ll bury without firing a shot.”
Hopefully Robert Thompson dubbed a Pop Culture Ambassador, a contributor to hundreds of radio and TV programs and publications said it’s not a vast percentage of the people reeking havoc on the social media network. He said it’s probably 10 percent or less.
The social media tools allow cowards the ability to spit out venom and remain faceless.
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