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I'm wondering if being more involved with instagram helps with recruiting. Some recruits like Todd Kelly Jr. have a lot of photos of Tennessee stuff. I wonder if it has the same positive effect as twitter has had for us and I'm curious to how many of you guys are involved with instagram like following recruits and posting awesome Tennessee photos?

I've posted a few pictures to contribute like this one:
Photo by mawwkj • Instagram
 
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Unless you got mad photo shop skills, I wouldn't waste your time. Twitter is used for it's fast stream of information more than anything else. Sometimes a "S/O" to a recruit, but it really shouldn't ever extend beyond that IMO.
 
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Volunteer_Kirby said:
Unless you got mad photo shop skills, I wouldn't waste your time. Twitter is used for it's fast stream of information more than anything else. Sometimes a "S/O" to a recruit, but it really shouldn't ever extend beyond that IMO.
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I agree. An occasional shout out is probably not that big a deal, and some recruits like to know that a particular fan base is behind their decision to play for their school of choice but it may not affect others at all. My problem is with the ones who become obsessed with a kid and check their facebook or twitter account every day. I'm sorry, but if you are 35 years old and you're checking in daily on some 16-17 year old kid to find out what he said about UT, especially when you aren't a coach or associated with the program in any way other than fan status, you have a major problem.
 
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volanatic said:
I agree. An occasional shout out is probably not that big a deal, and some recruits like to know that a particular fan base is behind their decision to play for their school of choice but it may not affect others at all. My problem is with the ones who become obsessed with a kid and check their facebook or twitter account every day. I'm sorry, but if you are 35 years old and you're checking in daily on some 16-17 year old kid to find out what he said about UT, especially when you aren't a coach or associated with the program in any way other than fan status, you have a major problem.
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you must not know how twitter works. you dont even have to visit the kids pages to see what they posted. theres a stream (timeline) of what everybody your following is posting. so if i posted something, everybody following me sees it on their timeline without even looking at my page
 
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What he said. Imagine each person you follow as a popcorn kernel. When he pops (tweets), it shoots right to the top (my news feed). That's Twitter.
 
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PassedOutAwake said:
you must not know how twitter works. you dont even have to visit the kids pages to see what they posted. theres a stream (timeline) of what everybody your following is posting. so if i posted something, everybody following me sees it on their timeline without even looking at my page
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I don't use twitter, but I do know how it works. The key word is "follow". I have no interest in "following" a kid's twitter feed. However, I am not insulting someone who does in any way. It's the ones who are obsessed to the degree that they hinge on every twitter post involving Tennessee, or any school, that they specifically seek out "following" these kids so that they can come on message boards like this one and be the first one to post a link to something that was said by the player. I also mentioned Facebook, where fans have friended a player and posted stuff on their page regularly. Do you not find that a little bit obsessive?
 
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Instagram is def the new thing. Most young kids(high schooler) use it daily... It's more pic oriented than twitter...
 
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I don't think the kids themselves even think twice about who is following them. I mean, almost everybody accepts friend requests on Facebook from people they hardly know.

I'm not too involved into Instagram or twitter, but I personally would find it a little weird to have a bunch of dudes checking out my photos and following my every post. But even then I still wouldn't really care. They'd be just a person in a profile pic to me, I wouldn't actually know any of them.
 
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I think that closely following recruits is a little silly. I don't find it "weird" or "stalkerish" or "perverse" like some of you seem to though. If you want to do it, knock yourself out.
 
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Yes, you have to meet the culture of the group you're trying to reach. in 5 years it will be a different culture. Being aware of where the target group is is how the game is done. It sounds like somebody at Tennessee gets it.
 
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Volunteer_Kirby said:
Unless you got mad photo shop skills, I wouldn't waste your time. Twitter is used for it's fast stream of information more than anything else. Sometimes a "S/O" to a recruit, but it really shouldn't ever extend beyond that IMO.
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You have to have "mad" photoshop skills for Instagram?

My wife uses Instagram and she wouldn't even know how to use the move tool in photoshop.

The most I do is check the twitter thread here every couple of days. Instagram is HUGE with Tweens and teens though. For those of you that hang on everyword these kids say its probably a good place to check out.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
You have to have "mad" photoshop skills for Instagram?

My wife uses Instagram and she wouldn't even know how to use the move tool in photoshop.

The most I do is check the twitter thread here every couple of days. Instagram is HUGE with Tweens and teens though. For those of you that hang on everyword these kids say its probably a good place to check out.
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Oh, I was not suggesting that one needs photo shop skills to use Instagram. My nephew can use Instragram and he's only 7. But if someone has good photoshop talents it would make sense to maybe befriend recruits who request avatars or pictures or the like. Otherwise, Facebook and Insagram should be completely hands off. JMO
 
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