Tennis and the Price Of Tweeting: Better Ora-Cene Than Heard

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Published: January 31, 2011

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In the last week, the Super Bowl participants have been decided, All-Star teams have either been chosen and/or games played in the NBA, NFL and NHL and tennis has crowned its first major champions of 2011.

That’s just a lightning-quick survey of five of the many sports that fans are passionate about.

Concurrent with this, much of the sports news has been generated by tweets hammered out by the likes of current and former NFL players and, yes, a certain tennis mom.

Most of these tweets have shared the following qualities: They are mean-spirited, clueless and unfortunate.

Such rantings from the Twittersphere (a largely parallel universe for this writer) have brought to mind a famous quote that has been attributed to both Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain, and perhaps others (none of them professional jocks):

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Permit me a step back, if not a retweet.

We live in an amazing age where literally everything appears to be at our fingertips, or just a click away.

Even a near-technophobe like me can zip around the Internet and conduct more research in an hour than I could have done in a whole weekend seven years ago.

Of course, technology is both wonderful and scary. Access to celebrities (however "celebrity" is defined these days—be he/she a politician, athlete, entertainer, criminal or some hybrid) has long been deemed newsworthy or entertainment worthy, and we now have access like never before.

It would be easy for me to opine on how social media phenomena such as Facebook and Twitter are screwing up the political, entertainment and (most dire of all?) sports landscapes, and that may be true.

But is there any way to put these mega-genies back into their respective bottles?

Apparently not.

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