HuffNPuff wrote:
I am definitely in the older generation, but I also do not do twitter, strava, instagram, etc. I am on Facebook, but I do not post selfies every day, every workout, or whatever. The funny thing is that I thought that is what the younger generation did...documenting their entire life through selfies...."Look, I'm eating a donut!"
No doubt there are some old fogies with a deep seated need for recognition, but by and large I would say you are describing a millennial habit.
I would say I have a combo of older and younger training friends. Some post after every workout, so post something after something major, some post after an event, some post never. It spans all generations. The after every workout group drive me nuts in that they are pushing this out to all of their 100-1000 facebook friends, most of whom know nothing about sport. I'm cool with talking about every workout with training partners or in a sports circle. If someone wants to talk/post about every workout somewhere like ST, that's fine....that's where we're supposed to talk sport. On facebook, or at work or at family get togethers, no one wants to hear about sport only. That's really the problem. The people posting about sport after every workout in non sporting circles, don't seem to realize that most of the people getting the feed don't care about sport. In high school, we talked all kinds of smack about every track workout and every interval right after track practice iwth the track guys. But the soccer, or volleyball team has zero interest. The marching band even less. Just keep your extra curricular inside your extra curricular group. Share the highlights with those outside it, once in a while. That system tends to work.