Note to the Giants' Department of Social Media
On Facebook I recently cataloged my favorite sports teams, putting down the Mets, Knicks, and Giants*. I thought about putting down the Jets as well (awesome win yesterday), but ultimately I decided to be a purist about it; when push comes to shove in football, I'm a Giants fan first.
Anyway, since listing these teams as my favorites I've received periodic updates from the teams. Actually, that's only partially true -- I've received updates from the Giants and Knicks, and, I'm pretty sure, nothing from the Mets.
Maybe I'm mistaken and just haven't noticed; if they have in fact sent nothing, I suppose it is the offseason, so it would make sense if they were not reaching out to people on Facebook as often as the Knicks, say, who send a blast after each win. When you have good news to report, people want to hear it.
However, when you're a massive disappointment to people, it's probably a good idea to fly a bit more under the radar. At least I would think so.
Not the Giants' social media department! I realize in order to stay relevant you have to give people content, but sending out a blast the morning of your would-be playoff game to say "GMORNING... BIG BLUE NATION" just seems incredibly tone deaf.
I sort of understood yesterday when they sent a message saying that the Super Bowl win over the Pats was a bigger upset than yesterday's Seahawks triumph over the Saints, but to arbitrarily send messages to people when they're still pissed off about missing the playoffs seems oblivious to the way fans think.
I don't know. Anyone else a "fan" of these teams on Facebook / find this a bit odd?
- A.F.O.M.G.
* In case you're wondering... the Giants have 556,276 fans, the Knicks have 328,916 fans, and it's the Mets bringing up the rear with 298,922 fans. Sigh...
Anyway, since listing these teams as my favorites I've received periodic updates from the teams. Actually, that's only partially true -- I've received updates from the Giants and Knicks, and, I'm pretty sure, nothing from the Mets.
Maybe I'm mistaken and just haven't noticed; if they have in fact sent nothing, I suppose it is the offseason, so it would make sense if they were not reaching out to people on Facebook as often as the Knicks, say, who send a blast after each win. When you have good news to report, people want to hear it.
However, when you're a massive disappointment to people, it's probably a good idea to fly a bit more under the radar. At least I would think so.
Not the Giants' social media department! I realize in order to stay relevant you have to give people content, but sending out a blast the morning of your would-be playoff game to say "GMORNING... BIG BLUE NATION" just seems incredibly tone deaf.
I sort of understood yesterday when they sent a message saying that the Super Bowl win over the Pats was a bigger upset than yesterday's Seahawks triumph over the Saints, but to arbitrarily send messages to people when they're still pissed off about missing the playoffs seems oblivious to the way fans think.
I don't know. Anyone else a "fan" of these teams on Facebook / find this a bit odd?
- A.F.O.M.G.
* In case you're wondering... the Giants have 556,276 fans, the Knicks have 328,916 fans, and it's the Mets bringing up the rear with 298,922 fans. Sigh...
posted by A Friend of Mr. Glass' at 1:00 PM
2 Comments:
That sounds like a desperate plea to everyone to remember that the Giants are....make that WERE....a good team a few years ago. Damn. Don't be mad at the Seahawks Big Blue.
I've had to defriend most of the Mets stuff, it was both spammy and full of completely ridiculous angry stupid hateful and racist comments from Mets fans.
The Mets have really stepped up the social media stuff lately, more Twitter than facebook, but it's there too.
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