Reading FC 2012-13 Season Survey

[melonhead]

LOL @ Bendy getting all arsey cos the club have asked for people's comments on the website and their twitter and FB accounts and some people have criticised them.

Surprised you've not been offered a job at the club as official spokesperson Bendy.

typical attempt to play the man not the ball RL

tut tut


your criticisms of the twitter and Fb accounts is unwarranted, pointless AND misplaced.due to the reasons i gave.im just pointing it out.


of course your allowed to hold your mental opinion if you like. thats up to you.

[soggy biscuit]

The whole basis of FB & Twitter is inane childish b******s, what on earth did you expect it to be??

It's like going to a match then complaining that all they did was kick a ball around for 90 minutes

[ZacNaloen]

The whole basis of FB & Twitter is inane childish b******s, what on earth did you expect it to be??

It's like going to a match then complaining that all they did was kick a ball around for 90 minutes

Plenty of corporations use facebook and twitter and successfully aim the content at the appropriate age groups. I personally think that Reading FC have the balance wrong. It's not so much the news stuff. That's usually just links to what's on the website, which is fine apart from being ugly. It's out reach stuff that seems to be inordinantly aimed at teenagers with it's tone and presentation.

[Alexander Litvinenko]

The whole basis of FB & Twitter is inane childish b******s, what on earth did you expect it to be??

It's like going to a match then complaining that all they did was kick a ball around for 90 minutes

Plenty of corporations use facebook and twitter and successfully aim the content at the appropriate age groups. I personally think that Reading FC have the balance wrong. It's not so much the news stuff. That's usually just links to what's on the website, which is fine apart from being ugly. It's out reach stuff that seems to be inordinantly aimed at teenagers with it's tone and presentation.

It also seems to be aimed at getting likes or Re tweets far, far more than it is aimed at communicating to people. As you say, the balance is all wrong.

[ZacNaloen]

It's just not very professional, is it?

This is the crux of what annoys me.

[Alexander Litvinenko]

Agreed, it's not professional at all.

It also comes across as overly-needy and desperately attention-seeking - like a 12-year-old asking people to be their friend.

#tryingtoohard

[soggy biscuit]

It's FB & Twitter FFS!

If I wanted to deliver a sensible, high brow, informative message to a group of people I wouldn't invite a child's entertainer to do it for me and expect people to take me seriously.

[TFF]

What fcuks me off most about the club FB page is seeing 18 status upd8s during a match. More than half of which I've been to and some of which I've seen on the telly. Wrecks my "wall" or whatever the homepage is called by excluding any news from friends and family.

Fair enough on twitter but please RFC no more than four updates needed, team sheets - ht score - ft score - reaction. The rest is just clutter.

And I know they buy into the football league webpage provider but wtf is the landing page about? Click to enter? I already did.

[melonhead]

Agreed, it's not professional at all.

It also comes across as overly-needy and desperately attention-seeking - like a 12-year-old asking people to be their friend.

#tryingtoohard

old person in not really getting the entirety of facebook and twitter shock

[Alexander Litvinenko]

I absolutely, absolutely *get* Twitter and its power in being a subject-based social-media. I've also been trained on it and given training on it.

I've seen the power it has when campaigning or trying to get communicate a message quickly and efficiently. It's effectiveness in getting a message out quickly has both sparked revolutions, overthrown dictators and saved lives across the globe. I absolutely do understand the massive power that it has to change the way we communicate and relate to each other.

Which is why I get so pissed off when I see Reading FC using such a phenomenally powerful tool as if it were Facebook (which I agree is pointless rubbish) - and by using it to send out endless banal shite.

The problem is when people - including RFC - don't appreciate the crucial differences between Facebook and Twitter together what you can do with them and how they should be used. Because they are massively different tools.

[Pandoras Box]

Because they are massively different tools

- who the people and RFC?

[Croydon Royal]

I absolutely, absolutely *get* Twitter and its power in being a subject-based social-media. I've also been trained on it and given training on it.

I've seen the power it has when campaigning or trying to get communicate a message quickly and efficiently. It's effectiveness in getting a message out quickly has both sparked revolutions, overthrown dictators and saved lives across the globe. I absolutely do understand the massive power that it has to change the way we communicate and relate to each other.

Which is why I get so pissed off when I see Reading FC using such a phenomenally powerful tool as if it were Facebook (which I agree is pointless rubbish) - and by using it to send out endless banal shite.

The problem is when people - including RFC - don't appreciate the crucial differences between Facebook and Twitter together what you can do with them and how they should be used. Because they are massively different tools.

As someone who also works in 'social media', I'd say this is an excellent post.

[Royal Lady]

Look Bendy, I know you're probably in some drug addled stupor right now - but if you are asked a question about what you think of the club's FB and Twitter accounts - it's perfectly acceptable to tell them - I'm guessing that's why the asked the question in the first place, to see how they could improve it or whatever.

[Maquisard]

Missed a trick when they asked what single song should be played - couldn't think of anything at the time. But now (in an optimistic mood) I see it should be Tubthumping of course

(although sometimes I'm tempted by Is It Over Yet? or Who'll Stop the Rain?)

[soggy biscuit]

Missed a trick when they asked what single song should be played - couldn't think of anything at the time. But now (in an optimistic mood) I see it should be Tubthumping of course

Leeds do that.

My suggestion was Bruce Springsteen - Going Down

[melonhead]

I absolutely, absolutely *get* Twitter and its power in being a subject-based social-media. I've also been trained on it and given training on it.

I've seen the power it has when campaigning or trying to get communicate a message quickly and efficiently. It's effectiveness in getting a message out quickly has both sparked revolutions, overthrown dictators and saved lives across the globe. I absolutely do understand the massive power that it has to change the way we communicate and relate to each other.

Which is why I get so pissed off when I see Reading FC using such a phenomenally powerful tool as if it were Facebook (which I agree is pointless rubbish) - and by using it to send out endless banal shite.

The problem is when people - including RFC - don't appreciate the crucial differences between Facebook and Twitter together what you can do with them and how they should be used. Because they are massively different tools.

yet again. i spent a lot of time scrolling through what theyve been putting out. i found very little banal in there, mosly just info on various aspects of the club.

and i say again, if its the banality of the medium youre complaining about- then i respectfully suggest that you dont get it at all.

and massive lol at getting "trained" on twitter

[melonhead]

Look Bendy, I know you're probably in some drug addled stupor right now - but if you are asked a question about what you think of the club's FB and Twitter accounts - it's perfectly acceptable to tell them - I'm guessing that's why the asked the question in the first place, to see how they could improve it or whatever.

ive not said youre not allowed to complain RL.
im simply saying if you are complaining that twitter is banal, youve just done a pointless complaint.

its almost as bad as saying.
im sick and tired of the clubs twitter feed. most of the messages are only 140 characters long, this is just too short. i demand change.

[Alexander Litvinenko]

Then you can't be reading the same feed as I am - of you have a different definition of the word "banal" ....

If I was "complaining about the banality of the medium" I'd hardly have posted the paragraphs you quoted. Or did you not read/understand them?

[melonhead]

i went back through th efeed when you were going on about it.
it was pretty much all info on 1st team games, youth teams, club shop, interviews with players and managers.
with the occasional retweet of something one of our pl;ayers said.


its just not fair criticism imo.what the oxf*rd else are you expecting to see there?

[Alexander Litvinenko]

I think your sample is too small - or perhaps it's not that bad this morning. They have different people who do it and some are better/worse than others. cba to look back and find examples now but there are some real howlers out there - frequently before away games .....

BTW, Brendy, can we just establish something?



I think the square on the left is black and the square on the right is white. Are you able to agree to that or do you feel the need to argue that one too.....?