Today's been a day for thoughts on social media

Now why was that? Well, for one of the walking football clubs it was time to revisit the constitution and one area that was probably lacking in the document, was on social media.

Is social media important to a walking football club? It is when most of the club membership play one hour of football a week and spend eight hours a day on social media, It's also an area that encourages participation but at the same time, that participation has no control, or at best is self controlled.

This week has also seen examples of the, 'I thought it was okay to post that as it's just banter' which then leads to a torrent of 'that's offensive' and 'delete those posts'.

The thought is how on earth do you make social media work for your club. I suppose by saying make it work I mean, keep it active, keep it informative, keep it focused, and keep it fun.

My approach is that I post the minimal, and re-read before sending, to ensure it is inoffensive and correct. Makes me the lowest authority to talk about the subject but I can say what I like and don't like.

I get very tired of the serial poster. This is the person that posts the same message on every group they're on, and while not spreading the message worldwide, continues to reply and post to everything else. While I busily delete from my device the same message across all the groups we share, for the serial poster it's much less about the content of the post but the need to self promote.

Though not a serial poster I do get tired of the one that has to reply, even when its clearly not needed. There was an example a few weeks back where someone on a large member group asked for volunteers to play in a one off game. The message was clear in asking for those that could play and yet up pops the message, "I'd really like to play but it's my wife's birthday and I'm going to the florists on the High Street for a bouquet of red roses, and then taking her out to our favourite restaurant, where there's going to be cake and balloons with After Eight Mints to finish". Now why was that needed and what benefit was it to the team organiser or group.

The serial posters favourite content is the video. Often completely unrelated to the theme of the group, these snippets of video are often cobbled together to reflect a current news topic or celebrity's fall from grace. If it's not a video then the next best thing is the picture. Again the majority are crudely modified originals with a football badge Photoshopped into a convenient place. At least these are part of a football theme.

I'm going to cut it short here as my phone's just pinged and its a dog video I've not seen.