Sunday, August 14, 2011

Sports social networking and the celebrity of modern sport

There is still an incredible buzz around social networks and the last hit the social network is the introduction of the direct communication of celebrities and athletes in sports. The rich and famous now take their Twitter 'tweet' out on the press with stories that have been written about them and to confirm or deny the gossip more recently. It is the same for the world of sports social network. A good example would be Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, as one of the most popular pages on Facebook fans in the world.


Phelps used their fan pages on Facebook as an online diary, as a forum to communicate with their millions of fans. Speaking about his personal experiences, share videos of himself and photographs of himself and photos of sponsorships that burden is involved. Recently, when he beat Phelps controversy and made the headlines, he carried his Facebook to apologize to her fans.


Just shows how this new generation of social network wants to communicate with their sporting heroes, something that was never possible in the past. The social network of sports also features a new form of real-time communication that can react more quickly to the press. If a piece of real time news appears on Twitter someone or another social network of sports, can spread rapidly via the internet rather than the press has yet discovered.


News not only sports, but recently the personal story of sports personalities has also appear directly from personality themselves. Not so long ago Lance Armstrong informed fans millions around the world that his girlfriend gave birth to their son, Max. The father was to show pictures of your newborn and all this has been possible with social networks.


While online social networks is only in its infancy, it is easy to see speed has adapted and how can totally avoid the media and allows you to ensure that athletes from sport to communicate directly with their fans in a way that now want a social network of sports.


A player for the Cleveland Cavaliers Shaquille or ' Neal is also another athlete who is not shy to social networking sites sports. With more than two million followers on Twitter, this sports celebrity daily talks about his thoughts on the news in the world sport. A few months ago even shared their thoughts with a NBA trade and even questions online world directly to their fans.


In general it is interesting to see where technology networking social will end up taking us, especially in the sports industry. For now it offers a fascinating window into the personal lives of our celebrity-obsessed culture and shows no signs of slowdown yet.


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