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Would you abuse a Spurs player directly?

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Mockers

What is the general feeling about negatively @ing Spurs players in social media?

I've just seen Trippier post a tweet saying something along the lines of "looking forward to the first CL game tomorrow #COYS" and amongst the first 5 of 6 responses you've got Spurs "supporters" replying to him with things like "hope you're not playing" and "you'll be benched". I mean what sort of brain dead nasty little cunt does that?

People will say they don't read it or it doesn't effect them but a) I believe both to be false and b) it's not really the point. (Roses recent comments about fans reactions to his contract extension being evidence of the former. And he isn't even in social media!)

As a Spurs fan I see nothing wrong with coming on forums like this and voicing your option on players, positive or negative but when it comes to directly messaging them with abuse that's crossing a line. Not to mention it can only have a negative impact.

Regardless of whether you like or loath a player messaging them ahead of a game with abuse has got to be the dumbest most counter productive thing a fan can do.

Maybe I'm alone in this thinking but social media really does highlight just how many absolute cunts there are in our society. It's rather depressing.
 
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I find this whole social media thing unnerving. I see kids with their faces buried in a screen – mostly on YouTube whilst their parent are transfixed on their own device. Social interaction is low for these people and they've only ever know this state. What are they going to be like as they grow into adulthood? How will they progress through life into retirement and old age? We're yet to see a generation bought up on this go full cycle. I think it's a worrying time...
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State of politics shows just about all you need to know about the damage social media is doing to the culture. It's a boon for the loud, obnoxious, ludicrous, eye-catching, and attention seeking. Delivers news in waves moving from clickbait crisis to clickbait crisis so quickly no one bothers to verify the accuracy of anything anymore, and by the time a retraction, if any, is made no one is paying attention.

And, perhaps most damaging of all, it has allowed people of all manner of opinions to isolate themselves to enclaves where they validate and are validated by like minded people and simply shoutdown or block any dissension. This is allowing the returning to prominence of all types of ideals that we had made significant progress in making socially taboo on the road to stamping them out of our culture.

China will probably conquer us all just because they'll have a useful and cohesive society if they manage to keep it under such tight wraps. Because we're really all turning into divided, petty, cunts incapable of rationality or complex thought thanks to Facebook and the like.
 
Talking shit about players on a forum is one thing, abusing them on their social accounts is nothing short of fucking disgrace.

Hope he ignores it and Focus on tomorrows game.
 
I'm a coward so I only do indirect abuse with strong plausible deniability.


I'm just kidding, the only person I abuse is myself.
 
I'm reminded of this, from a few years back...

English boxer Curtis Woodhouse turns up on the doorstep of his Twitter troll
When Curtis Woodhouse lost his English light-welterweight title on points to Shane Singleton on Friday night , he was branded a "disgrace" on the social networking site by 'Jimmyob88'‏, who has reportedly been abusing Woodhouse on Twitter for months.

The boxer was so enraged with the tweets that he offered his followers a £1,000 reward if they could help him locate the culprit. Woodhouse's growing number of Twitter followers chipped in and managed to track down his troll.
English boxer Curtis Woodhouse turns up on the doorstep of his Twitter troll
 
Mockers said:
What is the general feeling about negatively @ing Spurs players in social media?

I've just seen Trippier post a tweet saying something along the lines of "looking forward to the first CL game tomorrow #COYS" and amongst the first 5 of 6 responses you've got Spurs "supporters" replying to him with things like "hope you're not playing" and "you'll be benched". I mean what sort of brain dead nasty little cunt does that?

People will say they don't read it or it doesn't effect them but a) I believe both to be false and b) it's not really the point. (Roses recent comments about fans reactions to his contract extension being evidence of the former. And he isn't even in social media!)

As a Spurs fan I see nothing wrong with coming on forums like this and voicing your option on players, positive or negative but when it comes to directly messaging them with abuse that's crossing a line. Not to mention it can only have a negative impact.

Regardless of whether you like or loath a player messaging them ahead of a game with abuse has got to be the dumbest most counter productive thing a fan can do.

Maybe I'm alone in this thinking but social media really does highlight just how many absolute cunts there are in our society. It's rather depressing.
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Agreed it's really dumb. Remember when we where in the hunt for Zaha (who is a good player) and some dickhead who apparently supports us who holds a view that he is not good enough insulted him and Zaha responded.

I mean we where heavily linked with this guy and a fellow fan blew off one of our transfer targets, what a cunt. It probably had nothing to do with our failure to get him but it set such a bad impression of our club to him.
 
It's a cunty thing to do-particularly for such a chest thumping COYS type tweet that any proper Spurs fan would applaud. But if you're a celebrity/sportsman etc & you put yourself up there to be shot at, there are plenty of cunts who will gladly oblige. If it upset the player, presumably he'd take his "page" or whatever it is called down. I wouldn't imagine Tripps will be crying into his weetabix, whilst sat in his mansion. The sad, salty fuckers who post shit like that to him must be green with envy of the bloke- particularly if they believe what they type.
 
I find this whole social media thing unnerving. I see kids with their faces buried in a screen – mostly on YouTube whilst their parent are transfixed on their own device. Social interaction is low for these people and they've only ever know this state. What are they going to be like as they grow into adulthood? How will they progress through life into retirement and old age? We're yet to see a generation bought up on this go full cycle. I think it's a worrying time...
 
People forget players are human. Janssen told he was not wanted on transfer deadline day, do you want to go on loan to Brighton without any consideration for his personal circumstances. Players including Trippier wondering all week if they will get a game. It is ok for the likes of Kane who is guaranteed a starting place but Trippier fought to get the number 1 place with Walker and thought he had achieved it and then the club bought Aurier. He probably is very insecure at present wondering how many starts he will get. Then these idiots make these comments. It can only increase his insecurity which if picked could result in him playing under stress and having a poor game.
 
Social media marketing is my line of work, it's interesting as you start developing a god complex rather easily because the average joe is such a gullible cunt. The nasty side of it however is really startling sometimes, the level of racist and other abuse people tend to post openly and often unrelated to the topic in hand is quite high. That and you quickly discover that there are a lot of people that just want to whine, complain, insult and feel threatened by everything. Lot's of sad frustrated lives in our society
 
It's poor form and poor ettiquette. But people think that they can get away with it since they are hidden behind a screen. And then they get shocked and appaled when a player grows jaded and lashes out.

You can think a player does something bad, and by all means tweet "Ah Sissoko blew that one" or "Son just did the most shit pass I have ever seen" but don't go fucking @ing them. Then it just becomes abuse and trolling. Same with the numbskulls that track celebrities and just reply to their tweets with the same thing over and over again.

Whenever I want to critique a player I always try to be constructive with it. Neither he nor I benefit from me directly @ing say Jan and calling him a nonce.
 
Stopspot said:
It's poor form and poor ettiquette. But people think that they can get away with it since they are hidden behind a screen. And then they get shocked and appaled when a player grows jaded and lashes out.

You can think a player does something bad, and by all means tweet "Ah Sissoko blew that one" or "Son just did the most shit pass I have ever seen" but don't go fucking @ing them. Then it just becomes abuse and trolling. Same with the numbskulls that track celebrities and just reply to their tweets with the same thing over and over again.

Whenever I want to critique a player I always try to be constructive with it. Neither he nor I benefit from me directly @ing say Jan and calling him a nonce.
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The response I got from one little scrote for (stupidly) pulling him up on it was "stop crying you batty".

Nice kid.
 
Its social media in general to be honest, people feel they can say things they would never do otherwise because they are hidden behind a screen. Don't like that culture.

But its also the way of the world now.
 
You have to remember some fans of clubs make up bogus accounts to abuse players,so possibly that.
I have seen snide accounts set up by spurs fans to abuse players of other teams,so i am sure we get it as well.
 
Stopspot said:
I think the E-sports scene played a part as well.

The rise of e-sports have lead to a clamping down on such behaviour. Effectiveness can be debated but it could be seen as a factor, at least in the way that some kids/people that game tend to take it more seriously in hope of going pro and thus have no time to chat shit
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I prefer the image of hungry rats turning on themselves haha
 
Seven Sisters said:
I wouldn't abuse anyone on social media, whether they were a Spurs player or whatever. It's cowardly bullying, full stop.
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The worse thing about it is there'll be a dozen that do that cause bad reputation for the majority. They're weasels, sad little men that have little pleasure in their own lives so take the piss out of others to make themselves feel bigger and better than they are. Children basically
 
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