{"id":296,"date":"2016-08-17T16:28:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T16:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demo-ninetheme.com\/company\/?p=296"},"modified":"2016-08-17T16:28:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T16:28:17","slug":"follow-us-from-soundcloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/17\/follow-us-from-soundcloud\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Limit the Negative Impact of Social Media on Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 74% of all internet users access social media sites, with 89% of those users being 18-29 years of age. Many athletes use social media as a way to track popularity with the number of tweets, re-tweets, followers, friends and views that they have on social media sites.\u00a0 In fact, some athletes correlate their popularity on social media to their athletic abilities. This need for recognition is causing a negative impact on a lot of teams and athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Texas Tech University used pro football player Johnny Manziel to highlight just what the magnitude of social media can do. Researchers tracked tweets regarding Manziel for the 2-week period during which his NCAA violation came to light. His violation was discussed on social media by over 90,000 individuals in just that 2-week timeframe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cksyme.com\/student-athletes-numbers-social-media\/\">A study<\/a> done in 2014 by Chris Symeon from CKSyme Media Group measured social media use for Division I and Division II NACAA athletes. On average, only 26% of these athletes has protected Twitter accounts, around 61.5% did not know all of their followers, and 14% had been a victim of online harassment such as unsolicited inappropriate material, account impersonation, angry fans messaging, or cyberbullying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 74% of all internet users access social media sites, with 89% of those users being 18-29 years of age. Many athletes use social media as a way to track popularity with the number of tweets, re-tweets, followers, friends and views that they have on social media sites.\u00a0 In fact, some athletes correlate their popularity on social media to their athletic abilities. This need for recognition is causing a negative impact on a lot of teams and athletes. Researchers from<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"margin_30 btn\" href=\"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/17\/follow-us-from-soundcloud\/\" >READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,42,43],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audio","tag-music","tag-soundcloud","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranavwoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}