Tweeting Recruits

Rike Miley said:
nphuskers12 said:
In reply to Allen being in Lincoln. The hell is wrong with people
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Um did I say you could post my tweets on this site?
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I don't give a damn what you say
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The line being drawn here is strange to say the least. It's not okay for an old man to tweet a high school kids "Welcome" or "Congrats!", because stalking.

It is okay for an old may to follow a high school kid's twitter account religiously, immediately cut and paste their tweets onto anonymous message boards, and then talk about it with other old men for pages on end because not stalking.

 
BigRedBuster said:
I find it strange that you find it strange discussing something that a person puts into a public space.
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Like I said, the line being drawn is strange. They post on twitter, a social media platform, specifically designed for interaction with other people. So pasting a publicly posted tweet to a message board of people who then obsessively discuss the content of the tweet is fine. Saying "congrats" or "welcome" on the social media platform that the same high school kid posted to, knowing it's a social media platform, is over the line.

 
Radioactive Man said:
BigRedBuster said:
I find it strange that you find it strange discussing something that a person puts into a public space.
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Like I said, the line being drawn is strange. They post on twitter, a social media platform, specifically designed for interaction with other people. So pasting a publicly posted tweet to a message board of people who then obsessively discuss the content of the tweet is fine. Saying "congrats" or "welcome" on the social media platform that the same high school kid posted to, knowing it's a social media platform, is over the line.
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You are vastly over simplifying the issue.

If it stopped at "congrats" or "welcome" great. But it doesn't. Fans go way over board especially when a player picks another school and some fans get nasty. It also goes on before someone commits and fans constantly contact recruits THINKING they are some how part of the recruiting process to Nebraska. Meanwhile, Nebraska was towards the top of the list that recruits say has fans that are the most annoying on Twitter.

 
BigRedBuster said:
Radioactive Man said:
BigRedBuster said:
I find it strange that you find it strange discussing something that a person puts into a public space.
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Like I said, the line being drawn is strange. They post on twitter, a social media platform, specifically designed for interaction with other people. So pasting a publicly posted tweet to a message board of people who then obsessively discuss the content of the tweet is fine. Saying "congrats" or "welcome" on the social media platform that the same high school kid posted to, knowing it's a social media platform, is over the line.
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You are vastly over simplifying the issue.

If it stopped at "congrats" or "welcome" great. But it doesn't. Fans go way over board especially when a player picks another school and some fans get nasty. It also goes on before someone commits and fans constantly contact recruits THINKING they are some how part of the recruiting process to Nebraska. Meanwhile, Nebraska was towards the top of the list that recruits say has fans that are the most annoying on Twitter.
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I get that. At some point it becomes obsessive and harmful to the recruiting process. But scroll up a few posts. Very specifically, when asked if it's okay to say "congrats!' or "welcome" when a guy commits, the response was it makes you a " creepy wierd borderline stalker crazy old fan." which was then echoed by multiple other posters. That's a weird line we draw that obsessing over the recruit on a message board is okay but saying congrats to them on a public social media platform is stalking.

 
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