It's a very good tool. I remember thinking that Twttr—as it was known some time past, when dropping all in the vowels from your business name was the cold thing to do—seemed as a pretty cool thing for keeping in touch with your friends, planning events and maybe updating your immediate family on types of bacon you had with regard to breakfast.
I never saw Bebo becoming the social monstrosity it's today. I don't believe that anybody did. Today, Twitter is close to as ubiquitous as email or Facebook; your local mom and pop diner is simply as likely to urge want you to look them up on Twitter as, say, Google or Microsoft.
But with that size, and with of which power, comes the probability misuse. And make no mistake relating to this: Twitter is misused. By regular every single day people, by movie stars, by politicians and just by athletes.
Each summer, the UFC holds a conference for fighters with the Red Rock Hotel in Las vegas. During this conference—which is mandatory for UFC fighters, no matter the stature—they educate you on how to manage your money, how to make sound business decisions and how to avoid doing dumb things on social networking.
It's that last a bed that we're addressing today, after just one more incident of a UFC jet fighter saying something offensive concerning Twitter.
This time all over, Nate Diaz was a offender. If you never have heard, Diaz tweeted the following on Wednesday afternoon:
Undoubtedly, this is no good right around. Dana White's reaction was swift, as the UFC Lead designer told MMAjunkie's John Morgan that Diaz could be fined and suspended or cut. As of the time I'm writing this (Thursday night), the UFC has issued these response:
"We are rather disappointed by Nate Diaz's reviews, which are in not a way reflective of our corporation. Nate is currently stopped pending internal investigation and we'll provide further comment the moment the matter has been chosen. "
Now, I are not familiar with what the UFC specifically teaches within their yearly conferences at White Rock. But if I could truthfully lock every fighter relating to the UFC roster in a place and tell them a couple things, I would advise them this:
People can read genital herpes virus treatments post on Twitter. In the event you post something dumb, people could very well read it. If people post something derogatory in the direction of any specific slice of society, it's probably planning to be news, and you are more than likely going to be with major trouble. You might lose your task, or you might consider using a new UFC suspensions this aren't really suspensions in any respect.
When you agree to adopt a paycheck for your services as a professional athlete, you're giving up many of the privacy that ordinary people enjoy. It comes while using the territory.
We've most been there, haven't most people? We're hanging with our buddies in the bar, having a number of brews and watching this fights. In this environment, we may say something that we'd never say facing anyone else. Things get slightly loose and conversational, and we use words or simply phrases that aren't fit in for public consumption.
I'm not saying not wearing running shoes makes your usage of words much like the one Diaz tweeted fine, because it's really never okay. Not by any sort of measure. But there is a measure of forgiveness that is included with uttering socially unacceptable words around your family members.
Those words absolutely have in which to stay that setting, however. No matter if a word means something entirely different within the neighborhood you grew up in. It's an offensive term for an entire group of people—one that this UFC has embraced wholeheartedly lately, no less—and that means you just cannot say it.
Merely had to guess, I'd say that Diaz won't find himself relating to the unemployment line. Remember the past time the UFC terminated a fighter "pending an indoor investigation? " That ended up being Matt Mitrione, and his suspension lasted all of 2, 3 weeks before the "investigation" has been concluded and Mitrione uncovered himself booked in another fight.
Diaz will find himself the recipient within the same treatment; he is actually, after all, someone of name value on the company, and that gives that you a little leeway in regards to situations like this one.
Today, my hope is which someone can corral these fighters and make sure they are understand that they never just represent themselves. They do not just represent the UFC.
They represent a total industry that is still young enough to take heavy damage when one of its athletes uses a great offensive slur. And the more that such type of thing happens—and the more that the guilty party gets off with a slap on the wrist with the UFC—the less chance there exists of mixed martial disciplines reaching those lofty altitudes that Dana White boasts are so attainable.
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