Our plan to raise knowledge about local sports club. - Assignment 3C

In my group we have altogether three people. Our decision was quite easy, because I'm in touch with the youth and coaching a basketball team. So we decided to take this ground and benefit it in our assignment. This was the choice, because it's kind of the easy way of doing this assignment and I've got quite much knowledge about this area. We didn't have same educations or anything like that, so we didn't even think about using education or school in our assignment. Actually we didn't even discuss about anything else beside this, because it was okay for everybody after someone asked what hobbies do we have and could we use them. I'm quite happy with this choice, because it may benefit me also later.

So our target group exactly is youth, from age 7 to 16 and basically now we have just girls but I don't think that this will have an impact on the assignment, because I hope that we'll have boys as well some day and could also benefit results of this assignment with them. Also in our club we have actually older girls than 16, but it's easier to target just a certain age group. Girls have been playing basketball more or less, some of them has just started now and some of them has been playing for several years. All of them live nearby, maximum distance of 30 km from my home town and our head gym. Some of them has several hobbies along with the basketball, some of them are concentrating only for basketball.

We chose Twitter, mainly because we couldn't choose Facebook. Facebook would be the obvious choice and also the easiest one. It would catch most of the people and provide a large platform for extending knowledge about our sports club. Actually I already have a Facebook site for our group, I've created it about a year ago because I think that it's important and useful for a sports club to have it's own Facebook site. You can provide common knowledge, information about games and tournaments, share pictures and videos from events and many more things through only one page and every one, who's interested, will have the same knowledge and information. 

So Twitter is our choice. I haven't used Twitter really, only when commenting some big games like basketball European championship games and ice hockey world championship games. So I don't have very much knowledge about Twitter and how to use it, but I think that quite many people use it daily and also I know that many big sports clubs use Twitter and share their events, pictures, information etc. through it. Also I know that using Twitter is kind of easy, you only need to write what you want to say and publish it. You may use hashtags, if you want, but that's not compulsory. In our assignment we'll use Twitter as I already described above: for sharing information, events, pictures etc. 

Possible privacy and security issues? Every time when using social media and communicating through it you can't be 100% sure about with whom you're communicating. It's quite easy to pretend to be somebody else or even steal someone's accounts and passwords, if you want. But I think that when using it for things like our assignment; youth clubs, it's quite trustworthy way. Youth has been using social media for a long time and they're like "fish in the sea" with it. I think that this is smooth way for communicating with youth and providing knowledge and information. Also for their parents it's a good reason to learn using different social medias, so that they also get the information about their children's hobbies etc. Of course you can't or shouldn't share personal information or anything like that about your players or yourself (if you don't want to) in social media like this, but it's actually not even necessary. Also you have to remember that for example if I was using this Twitter account, I would have to think carefully before sharing something not regarding to basketball. It wouldn't be nice to notice that you've shared something what divides opinions and soon people might be hating your club because of some opinion you've given away through your public account.
Also with pictures and names you have to make sure, that every one are comfortable with their information and pictures being public. You can't share any personal information or pictures without their permission. 

All in all I think that Twitter is good and not so common choice. I think that through Twitter account you can really share information and feelings, so that people following you will get in touch with your club. Updating Twitter is easy and quick and you can do that even if our club is playing in other places and like 5 minutes before starting the game or something like that. You can update scores during the game and share pictures from the game, if you want to. It's really interesting choice and it would be nice to see, would people really use this when there's Facebook.