A place where escape goats go to play
https://www.notplanetrugby.com/
It's locked. What does it say?TheFrog wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 4:55 pm Anyone of us to PR weirdos know that some people lose any notion of civility and cowardly behave as internet bullies once protected by their screen, but below is an example that is bad for the French, and rugby fans in general.
https://www.rugbypass.com/plus/andrew-b ... ial-media/
I completely agree. It's very easy to get off these social media handles, so I have limited sympathy.Hugo wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 5:19 pm I'm genuinely surprised that people in public life bother to engage social media to the extent that they read it. Maybe curiosity gets the better of them. I can see it being a useful promotional tool for famous people to market themselves or their work but that would seem to be the extent of its usefulness.
The internet is a toxic enough environment for a Joe Average type of person with an anonymous login, never mind if you were well known, in the public eye and subjected to fairly intense scrutiny.
They posted on his father's rip.ie obituary page so he couldn't really avoid it.Hugo wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 5:19 pm I'm genuinely surprised that people in public life bother to engage social media to the extent that they read it. Maybe curiosity gets the better of them. I can see it being a useful promotional tool for famous people to market themselves or their work but that would seem to be the extent of its usefulness.
The internet is a toxic enough environment for a Joe Average type of person with an anonymous login, never mind if you were well known, in the public eye and subjected to fairly intense scrutiny.
Oh, I thought it was on twitter.Uncle fester wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 8:17 amThey posted on his father's rip.ie obituary page so he couldn't really avoid it.Hugo wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 5:19 pm I'm genuinely surprised that people in public life bother to engage social media to the extent that they read it. Maybe curiosity gets the better of them. I can see it being a useful promotional tool for famous people to market themselves or their work but that would seem to be the extent of its usefulness.
The internet is a toxic enough environment for a Joe Average type of person with an anonymous login, never mind if you were well known, in the public eye and subjected to fairly intense scrutiny.
His father had passed away shortly before the game (covid) and some superfans decided that they needed to get his attention directly as he might not have been paying enough attention to them on twitter.Hugo wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 8:52 amOh, I thought it was on twitter.Uncle fester wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 8:17 amThey posted on his father's rip.ie obituary page so he couldn't really avoid it.Hugo wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 5:19 pm I'm genuinely surprised that people in public life bother to engage social media to the extent that they read it. Maybe curiosity gets the better of them. I can see it being a useful promotional tool for famous people to market themselves or their work but that would seem to be the extent of its usefulness.
The internet is a toxic enough environment for a Joe Average type of person with an anonymous login, never mind if you were well known, in the public eye and subjected to fairly intense scrutiny.
Agree. You only need a tiny number of loud lemons to ruin it for everyone though.laurent wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 6:47 am I recall quite a few real fans asking to withdraw the comments.
I follow a number of rugby related twittos most from boucherie ovalie an old rugby satirical site.
They are the kind of people to intervene positively in this kind of mess.