Ok-now that Portugal has finished schooling North Korea I can focus on today's blog which happens to be World Cup related. If you haven't been paying attention to life lately than you may not have realized that the World Cup has been underway for the past 10 days. It's exciting, it's sexy and it's being followed by the world (duh) which of course means that it is all over social networking websites.
While I understand that people want to tweet about the 7 goals Portugal scored this morning or the goal that was robbed from the US team, why do the players need to promote themselves on Facebook and Twitter? Shouldn't they be busy, I don't know, trying to win the cup for their country?
According to an article on ABC news, "The World Cup has an unprecedented volume of social media outlets." You mean, people all over the world are using social networking sites to discuss the World Cup, no way? Guilty as charged, I've been blogging about it for the past two weeks. My gripe is not with the fans, because we all know, without fans, these games wouldn't exist. I'm more confused about the players promoting themselves on Facebook and Twitter a like.
If you're a US fan than you already love Landon Donovan. If you're a Cote D' Ivoire fan than Didier Drogba is your boy. No need for them to sign into Facebook (or have their agent sign in) to post a status update. You guys keep playing and looking sexy out there and leave the social media chit chat up to the rest of us dopes.
