All-Star Great Article About Real Life Consequences For Social Media Choices

[gofriars610]

I don't think it's likely that a life will be ruined, but in my son's case, one tweet caused him athletic suspension his senior year. That didn't ruin his life at all, and he wasn't going to play in college anyway. Under different circumstances, he could have lost a chance to play in college.

That story is still one of the craziest things I've ever read on here.

 

[amy1k]

That story is still one of the craziest things I've ever read on here.

I still feel it's completely crazy, but there aren't laws or anything that protect kids in that kind of situation. School sports are a privilege and they're conduct rules can be interpreted however they want.

 

[cheerisloving]

I wrote a blog post for my internship about schools getting active on social media and how it curtails some of the negativity in students online. My HS athletic director is on Twitter and FB, as are coaches. We used to see big drama on social media when I was in middle school and 9th-10th grade, but it has changed drastically. My school district has a #beatwhateverschool here trend for playing in-county rivals which usually is just ugly pictures of our classmates or kids from the rival school because we all know each other. But there are always some kids that take it too far and put up pictures of kids passed out or using the bathroom. I know my coach stepped in and had my teammate remove a picture of another teammate using the bathroom in her uniform.

After learning my lesson while still in HS, I like to brag that my current social media is clean, I barely swear and it's usually the PG13 words, I have no mention of illegal activity. I look at some of my athlete friends, I wonder if they realize how bad it looks to be a mess on social media.

 

[Daniellerae]

I'd like to add that I checked out a highly vulgar and very rude "anonymous" cheer tumblr that was mentioned in a thread a couple weeks ago, and in about 3 minutes I figured out her full name, age, college, and the fact that she cheers for said college. (And I'm sure her coach would LOVE to see what she posts on her "private" blog)

 

[Official OWECheer]

I wrote a blog post for my internship about schools getting active on social media and how it curtails some of the negativity in students online. My HS athletic director is on Twitter and FB, as are coaches. We used to see big drama on social media when I was in middle school and 9th-10th grade, but it has changed drastically. My school district has a #beatwhateverschool here trend for playing in-county rivals which usually is just ugly pictures of our classmates or kids from the rival school because we all know each other. But there are always some kids that take it too far and put up pictures of kids passed out or using the bathroom. I know my coach stepped in and had my teammate remove a picture of another teammate using the bathroom in her uniform.

After learning my lesson while still in HS, I like to brag that my current social media is clean, I barely swear and it's usually the PG13 words, I have no mention of illegal activity. I look at some of my athlete friends, I wonder if they realize how bad it looks to be a mess on social media.

How do people even obtain photos like that?

 

[FierceIsTheName]

I run an anon cheer twitter. Many people on here know i do. Last year my coaches knew too, and it was kind of a sigh of relief. I knew i had to be respectful and watch what i say on that account. My whole team last year knew about it, and a lot of other kids in the program did too. My current coach doesn't know about it, but i don't go on it as much as i used to. I still try to keep a good ima
No one is completely Anonymous on the internet. Its quite simple to track someone down. There was a "AHS Fight Club" twitter started for my school, threatening to beat anyone up. I immediately began searching for clues for who it was. I'm still not 100% sure who ran it, but i had 3 who were pretty obvious. A simple DM to them that i knew who was behind it, the account was deleted in 10 minutes. I was a little scared they we're gonna come for me (being a 5'4" girl isn't a huge challenge for most people) but they didnt.

 

[nicolee]

Once something is put out on the Internet, it's there forever. Digital footprints are very difficult to erase. I learnt that when Googling my name to discover that one of the first results was a magnificent photo of me as a nerdy bespectacled 10-year-old at a math competition. It was taken for the newspaper over a decade earlier.

My Facebook has no swearing, no complaints about people or professional bodies, not even any photos of me drinking unless they're classy, clean ones of champagne at weddings. I know that prospective employers, college staff, new friends, ANYONE can search my social media sites. So everything on there represents me well, and I'm very proud of that.

 

[cheernerd5678]

When I was in middle school, Facebook was just becoming popular, and Instagram, Twitter, etc weren't even known of (to us 6th graders at least). But since probably 5th grade I've sat through countless lectures IN SCHOOL about your online presence. We were required to take a class where we did typing and learned computer stuff and we spent probably 2 weeks of the six week class talking about sexting and representing yourself on social media, that employers and schools look at it, etc. I knew that what I post would be there forever since before I was even old enough to have social media. That's why I don't feel bad for people who claim they didn't know, especially if they're younger than me and social media was around longer before them. It's not like we haven't had social media basically our whole lives. You should know. Even if not every school system necessarily drills it in as much, but don't try to tell me you made it to high school and nobody told you that your posts are there forever. And yeah there are still idiots at my school posting photos or tweets that they shouldn't be but they can't claim they were unaware.
ETA: I'm a senior in HS


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[Fierce_Elite]

I am shaking my head that you still seem to think that one can stay anonymous online. It was frightening how easy the FBI found out things about you, and your cousin and it only took about 5 minutes.

Sigh, you only found my cousin because I gave out her name and she's on a youtube video.

 

[omgitssydthekid]

My freshman year of college, two years ago, myself and a couple of the girls I cheered with got in trouble with our coach because the school had seen our tweets and deemed them inappropriate. I go to a very religious university so they likely wouldn't have a been a problem elsewhere but we were all very careful after we got talked to about what we were posting online. I wish I had learned earlier because my timehop up until two years ago is mortifying [emoji19]


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[CheerBank]

I don't think that A bad tweet would discount anyone. A history of bad choices? That could go towards character, which is a HUGE consideration for many scholarships and job offers.

It truly depends on the tweet. Cp's high school had that incident earlier in the school year with the rape "joke" photo posted. Yes it was deleted but not before it went viral in our community, reported to and then in the news. That single tweet/photo would definitely have to be explained to a future potential admissions counselor or employer if discovered.

 

[Fiercecheermom]

Thought you were talking about the real FBI for a sec... lol.

We ARE the real FBI ;) LOL...

 

[dawgshow]

It truly depends on the tweet. Cp's high school had that incident earlier in the school year with the rape "joke" photo posted. Yes it was deleted but not before it went viral in our community, reported to and then in the news. That single tweet/photo would definitely have to be explained to a future potential admissions counselor or employer if discovered.

Good point. I was thinking about typical party pictures and "School X rules school
Y s@@@s!" posts.

 

[Cheer Dad]

Some parents and athletes have used this as a reason to stay off social media entirely, but (purely observational) I feel like coaches WANT potential athletes out there. It seems like they want to see these kids and how they present themselves to the world. My youngest son has tried to remain hard to find, but he recently had a college coach follow him on Instagram (he has an unused account there and hasn't attempted to hide it). His dad and I are working on convincing him to use social media as a tool to make himself look more desirable to coaches.

Smart coach. The days of being a hermit on social media is dwindling and it is getting to the point you are looked at funny if you don't have some sort of electronic footprint.


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[Cheer Dad]

Thought you were talking about the real FBI for a sec... lol.

There is more than one? *scratcheshead*


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