Social media has become one of the most important parts of the lives of everyone and that includes all the sports persons who are on social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram. The age of social media picked up pace in the last decade plus and it has just grown and grown each day and now life without social media is not possible.
However, as there are positive and negative aspects to everything, the same is for social media and the sportspersons have both a positive and a negative impact and sometimes it affects their daily lives. So, let’s discuss that Has Social media had a negative or positive impact on sportspersons and let’s first talk about both impacts
The positive impacts of Social media on sports persons
The positive impacts of Social media on sports persons are manifold. First it gives a wider reach as compared to their regular media, they are able to get followers in social media and the greater the following the better the reach will be on social media. This also allows them to directly interact with fans on some topics and they are able to listen to the feedback the fans have for their play or what they could do better next time. They are able to see in real time the impact that they have on the fans and they also get to know what the fans do not like. And on Twitter they are able to express their opinions about a range of topics and on Instagram they are able to post pics and they get a huge sum of money for each post. For example Virat Kohli has 246 million followers on Instagram so every post that he does earns him crores of rupees. They are also able to see former players of the same sport express their opinion on social media and improve their mistakes. And these days it is the era of menes so they are also able to have a laugh looking at the creativity of their fans.
The negative impacts of Social media on sports persons
Now that the positive impacts of Social media on sports persons has been looked at , let’s talk about the ugly truth of social media. It has given a platform to everyone to express their opinions and this includes those who hate a particular sportsperson and they will post ugly and harsh comments about them and they are able to read and then they get angry. The sports persons are also subject to trolling and it gets to them because they are also human beings. Sometimes people cross the limits when they come after the family of that sportsperson and attack their children. Sometimes the ex players say some things on social media that they were not expecting and as a result they think about that quote. And the fans of different sports persons start a war between two people like the Messi vs Ronaldo Rivalry which has gotten vicious and in Indian cricket it is Rohitians vs Viratians and they forget that both play for India.
The conclusion is that social media has to be used carefully and the sports persons should not revolve their life around social media and what everyone says about them and they should just come once in a while and just log off. There are positive and negative impacts of Social media in equal measure.
