Social Media - how do you handle

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How do you inform/warn your players of the ups and downs of Facebook, Instagram, Kik and all the other sites out there? You know something could get posted about another player, problem with team, playing time or other concerns. How do you handle, long talk, discipline, sit them out a game or remove from team? With all of the texts, pictures and sites - just seems inevitable someone posts something they shouldn't.

 

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Great question ... seeing all the trouble even professional players get into with it ... would hope a lot would come from parents, but I certainly can see a coach setting some ground rules around it and then following through with consequences ... when you play in a team sport, you have to be accountable for how your actions can affect the team ...

 

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At the elementary schools, kids watch a video that talks about safety and how to use social networking the correct way. They need to understand that companies can go back and see every text you sent and received. One video for older kids showed that 2 kids had harassed another student through texts that commited suicide. They traced the messages back to the kids. At the university level, our players could text on the tour buses but if we stopped for dinner, NO phones allowed at the table. Some girls seemed to freak out that they couldn't text for 20 minutes while they ate.

 

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A lot of parents do not know what media outlets their kids are on...I meet with players /parents to help explain the pitfalls and benefits of todays media. It is not going anywhere so, the sooner kids can learn the ups and downs the better their chances are of not having something out on the web that could hurt them down the road including future employment. Even setting security defaults is no guarantee someone cannot back door through friends or if, like kids do all the time "Like Something"

With Employers,potential colleges now Googling your name it is better for a student athlete to have sport related information pop up than Twitter, Facebook etc. with your latest family gathering or social event.

 

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A couple of years ago, one of Louuuuuise's teammates posted on Facebook how that days' supposedly brutal practice didn't faze her. 'Problem is - Coach was a friend on Facebook...

You should have seen the next practice!

 

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A couple of years ago, one of Louuuuuise's teammates posted on Facebook how that days' supposedly brutal practice didn't faze her. 'Problem is - Coach was a friend on Facebook...

You should have seen the next practice!

Our HS Coach "like most" used group chat for the varsity. Seemed like it was a daily occurrence with a player with no check valve/filter posting something they should not have even knowing the group was monitored.
They spent a lot of time aerating the infield.

 

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With the potential for feelings getting hurt and girls being girls I had everyone that had an account from these sites HAD to add myself as a friend to make sure the "TEAM Chemistry" wasn't affected and I could end anything disruptive before it got out of hand!

 

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This happened with our high school team this year. With me I always spoke about "talking" about the team in a bad light to others and had it in my contract. With advanced technology, coaches will have to also have to include a social media policy. Anything that is defamitory to a teammate, parent, fans, and/or coaches should be disciplined. The discipline is up to the coach and org. and the offense.

 

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I think we all have seen that the parents need to be policed on this matter as well. FB, Instagram, Kik, Snapchat and even bulletin boards like OFC & Discuss Fastpitch should be treated with caution by the players as well as parents.
we live in a different world now!

 

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Our DD "busted" and called out a parent of a former teammate for spewing ugly about a specific team on FB. She politely but assertively pointed out that a mom who wanted her kid to play college ball should not put that kind of stuff online, some coach might see it.

 

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I think we all have seen that the parents need to be policed on this matter as well. FB, Instagram, Kik, Snapchat and even bulletin boards like OFC & Discuss Fastpitch should be treated with caution by the players as well as parents.
we live in a different world now!

You act like you've experienced this first hand. Your such a trouble maker! LOL

 

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And yes Chris Parents need policed as much as the kids. It normally starts with them.

 

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I was glad when my DD's volleyball coach at the parent meeting said if anyone on the team is caught posting anything negative about the school, other girls on the team or any classmates on any social network they will immediately be kicked off the team no questions asked. That is one way to solve the problem I guess... Seems like a pretty straight forward and simple rule to me!

 

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I was glad when my DD's volleyball coach at the parent meeting said if anyone on the team is caught posting anything negative about the school, other girls on the team or any classmates on any social network they will immediately be kicked off the team no questions asked. That is one way to solve the problem I guess... Seems like a pretty straight forward and simple rule to me!

Love this! All coaches should hold kids accountable to the team.

 

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Love this! All coaches should hold kids accountable to the team.

Excellent, people need to be held accountable for their actions…

 

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A few years ago when Coach Mike Candrea was in for a clinic, he told the girls and parents that coaches now look at social media. They look at the girls they may recruit and check out what they put out there in cyberspace. So they better not put anything out there on Twitter, Facebook, Instgram or any other vehicle that they do not want it to be seen by a college coach.