Quote Originally Posted by kill_the_drum View Post
Why should high profile people avoid social media because some people are complete scum with nothing better to do? That’s like saying women shouldn’t go to bars/clubs because there’s men that might spike their drink.
As a society we should not accept it and work on weeding the scum out rather than have the attitude of ‘what did you expect’ to the recipient of the abuse.
In regards to the booing, it was embarrassing on Saturday. A group in front of me in the Kop booed at half time, booed after the second goal and hurled abuse at the players for about 5 minutes, then celebrated like we’d won the league.
Don’t get me wrong, I was as unhappy as anyone and can’t say I was happy after the game, but booing adds nothing. It drains the players of confidence and compounds an already inept performance.
It's not saying that at all but I appreciate your point of view. Social media allows anyone to hide behind a screen and say / do what they want. It then feeds advertising revenue for massive companies who then basically have little to no regulation to do what they want and in many instances pay no tax! I am not saying we should accept it in fact quite the opposite, I am saying that if it isn't used then it defeats the business model and then it will force change. I can't comment on the booing obviously. There will always be dickheads. That's life. Just like there will always be people who try and spike womens drinks in pubs ( and believe me I have 3 daughters it scares me to death). I've seen one of my own kids bulled to the point of significant self harm to herself on social media and believe me I dislike it intensely and for good reason. It's evil it allows people to hide and cause great harm and the only way it will be changed is if the revenue model is defeated by significant regulation or people moving away from it. I say this with considerably informed opinion having seen what it does to young people. I totally advocate change but the way to achieve it has to start with financially harming the social media companies business model with hugely negative financial outcomes for them and forcing them to police their platforms properly - or people walk away or can't use it. That needs to be worked out and implemented by someone far smarter than me.