For the Twitteratti...

[junglehusky]

I limit myself to ~5-10 UConn athletes (and commits) that I follow at a time, tweet at recruits once in a while, keeping the creepy to a modest level. Some are more careful about their twitter persona (@chandlerwhitmer and @NickyWilz31 hardly ever tweet, @E_Wolf_1 mostly tweets positive Husky Spirit type tweets)... Some less so.

And yeah lots of the stuff kids tweet about is trivial / banal, but some of it is cool for fans to see like this:

https://twitter.com/YawinSmallwood/status/291051107877281793

 

[EdgewoodNHV]

2) Having to read the contents of a teenager's mind would hurt my own.

Yeah this is the prime reason I don't follow most of our athletes. Also, many of them are deeply religious and I just end up with a bunch of Joel Osteen comments about Jesus all over my newsfeed. To each their own, but not for me.

I'll stick to up-and-coming comedians and their snarky comments in my Twitfeed, thank you very much.

 

[Husky25]

Yeah this is the prime reason I don't follow most of our athletes. Also, many of them are deeply religious and I just end up with a bunch of Joel Osteen comments about Jesus all over my newsfeed. To each their own, but not for me.

I'll stick to up-and-coming comedians and their snarky comments in my Twitfeed, thank you very much.

Agreed. Anything important will be retweeted anyway.

 

[Srqhusky]

The purpose is actually just to show some love and say welcome to uconn or looking forward to what u bring and maybe some small chit chat. They will feel like they have a positive fan base not just a bunch if bench coaches. I am sure 45 percent o their tweets are about football and 45 percent are about chasing girls. Nothing earth shattering

 

[EdgewoodNHV]

The purpose is actually just to show some love and say welcome to uconn or looking forward to what u bring and maybe some small chit chat. They will feel like they have a positive fan base not just a bunch if bench coaches. I am sure 45 percent o their tweets are about football and 45 percent are about chasing girls. Nothing earth shattering

You'd be mistaken. I used to think the same thing. Then I started reading the tweets these young men write on a day to day basis. I assure you, if it was just football, I'd do it. It ain't.