{"id":44711,"date":"2014-02-11T15:28:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.regancomm.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2014-02-11T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:28:35","slug":"social-in-sochi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regancomm.com\/social-in-sochi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Social in Sochi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stuck in the office?<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t see the women\u2019s hockey game because you don\u2019t want to be late for school or work?<\/p>\n

Curling starts today at 9am EST but please don\u2019t tell me what\u2019s happening I\u2019m DVR-ing the matches.<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t give you the results of the first round of curling but here\u2019s some advice if you really don\u2019t want to know: Stay off social media. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, to name a few, are helping people stay updated, instantly.<\/p>\n

There is a nine-hour difference between Boston and Sochi, but social media laughs in the face of the time difference.<\/p>\n

Social media is a place where you can find out play-by-play of any sport, and if you follow any Olympic athlete you can get a behind-the-scenes look from their prospective.<\/p>\n

My good friend is a trainer for Paraguayan slopestyle skier Julia Marino. He\u2019s been posting great behind-the-scenes images, videos and tweets which I\u2019m truly enjoying. I can\u2019t get enough of it. These missives give you the feeling that you\u2019re there on the mountain or in a rink despite being thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n

We live in an information world, we want things 10 minutes ago, and the social media channels are thus buzzing with oodles of Olympic coverage as it happens.<\/p>\n

People feast on non-mainstream stories as well, the barrage of poor hotel accommodations, weird food combinations at breakfast, and who could forget all the bathroom facility photos.<\/p>\n

Social media has garnered more talk show topics from the Olympics than your local newspaper or favorite website, and has gotten U.S. figure skater Ashley Wagner\u2019s angry face as a meme within minutes to boot.<\/p>\n

It has also become a promotional tool for upcoming events that some people might have never checked out in the past. Curling does start today; I tend to get sucked in purely on fascination with the sport, but following Twitter, you\u2019ll see that people are tweeting out photos of the Norwegian team\u2019s pants. \u00a0Those images alone will surely get a few people to check out curling who might not have done so before.<\/p>\n

Social media is keeping people engaged and interested in the Olympics, I mean where else are you gonna hear about a guy getting stuck in a bathroom and breaking out of it like the Incredible Hulk?\u00a0\"Norwegian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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