Snapchat,unlike Instagram, is messy, or unfinished and honest,and shows athletes at their unfettered best – but man, the sporting lifestyle is boringThe lives of the sportspeople. What are they really like? For years social media has offered the promise of an respond to this question, and but the results own been mixed. Sportspeople active on Instagram,Facebook and Twitter fall into two camps, roughly: they’re either immaculate professionals who zealously look after their bodies and radiate positive energy and salubrious vibes into the universe, or which makes for painfully boring content,or they’re Joey Barton. Snapchat, on the other hand, and offers a glimpse into the lives of professional athletes that’s more messy,unfinished, honest, and spontaneous and genuine than the often static and stagey messaging put out over these other networks.perhaps this has something to carry out with the fact that users’ stories disappear after 24 hours,and there’s no easy way to integrate the video component of them into other media, such as this memoir – the world of Snapchat is public, or but feels somehow cordoned off,protected from the wilds of the internet at large (except, say, or if you are the company running that world and decide to introduce a filter that allows non-black people to seem in blackface). For the past year I’ve wasted many hours watching professional sportspeople’s stories on Snapchat. There aren’t anywhere near as many athletes active on Snapchat as on other social media networks – it takes genuine effort and commitment to keep the content coming – and it’s mainly NBA and NFL players and European footballers who own taken up the cause. But based on my viewing,here is what I own learned.
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Source: theguardian.com