Meh. I think social media and any potential distraction it may be on them can be overblown. Payne has an active twitter account for example. Jon Allen's twitter even links to his webpage of him playing video games.
Yes, but neither is out there seeking attention any way they can...just a simple account of today's youth. Then there are the Haskins and Guice types who need daily affirmation from the twitter account.Meh. I think social media and any potential distraction it may be on them can be overblown. Payne has an active twitter account for example. Jon Allen's twitter even links to his webpage of him playing video games.
You really cannot see the difference?I dunno. Why aren't Haskins' and Guice's twitter accounts also "simple accounts of today's youth"? Just by nature of being higher profile positions - qb and rb, compared to d-tackles, they may get more attention from media and fans, but I don't think there is any grand difference. All the people in their generation grew up naturally using social media.
Not really. They all post. Just because you pay attention to one more than another, I still think they all basically use social media for the same reasons.You really cannot see the difference?
I think you're missing the content of the social media posts are different. Jonathan Allen posting something about fishing, as opposed to Guice posting an image of him on a yacht with a bunch of women at the onset of as pandemic is a bit different,Not really. They all post. Just because you pay attention to one more than another, I still think they all basically use social media for the same reasons.
Optics are subjective. Guice’s posts look and resonate quite different to chesty young Gen Z’ers and their contemporaries than they do judgey old white men like us.
Get off my lawn.
Didn't mean to touch a nerve. Perhaps I just should have said "judgey old guys". The "white" part was more about me than anyone else--it's the only perspective I can truly draw upon.Right, because I am an old "white" man I cannot possibly understand what is going on when I see a RB who has never played more than a couple games in the NFL post pictures of himself on social media with a group of people in a confined area when we are in the midst of a f***ing pandemic, but a guy posting pictures fishing...by himself...is expressing the same thing, pretty similar optics if you ask me. Suuuure, that's a reasonable conclusion...even for an old "white" guy.
Didn't mean to touch a nerve. Perhaps I just should have said "judgey old guys". The "white" part was more about me than anyone else--it's the only perspective I can truly draw upon.
Optics are subjective. Both for the sender and receiver. They pass through the filters each of us develop via our life experiences. That's my point.
I dunno. Why aren't Haskins' and Guice's twitter accounts also "simple accounts of today's youth"? Just by nature of being higher profile positions - qb and rb, compared to d-tackles, they may get more attention from media and fans, but I don't think there is any grand difference. All the people in their generation grew up naturally using social media.
Didn't mean to touch a nerve. Perhaps I just should have said "judgey old guys". The "white" part was more about me than anyone else--it's the only perspective I can truly draw upon.
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