The life of an average college athlete: classes, practice, weights, studying, eating whenever possible and sleeping. In between those activities are the small opportunities of checking social media and voicing one's opinion. Social media has proven to be problematic for even older and more experienced professional athletes. Now the opportunities for young adults in the college life to get in trouble are, shall we say, boundless. Especially for these college athletes.
“Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS.” - @Cordale10 (Cardale Jones)
This is only one instance of where the on the actual point of going to college for an education is mixed up with the recruiting process of playing sports. Only on social media could the term, “shooting yourself in the foot” be so applicable for an athlete. It’s discouraging to watch an athletes dreams and future wither away from a single post or share on social media. Frankly, it’s quite unfair. There are hardly an schools that have some type of social media class that teaches student athletes how to properly use this online weapon.
Like a gun, it can be used for good or bad, it just depends on where you point it. Instead of hammering hard working student athletes on what they do wrong, statistics would more likely favor those schools who teach their student athletes how to use social media in a beneficial manner.
Nothing is private once it hits online, ever. Athletes are not the only ones that make this mistake, and many don’t realize that what they share or post can’t be permanently deleted. What's even worse, most don’t realize that once it’s on social media it’s now public information, not some secret folder on their desktop.
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