The Red Sports Facebook page.
Sunday, April 1, 2012 — Red Sports will just provide news updates via Twitter feeds and Facebook updates from May 1st.
The volunteer editorial team decided, after 5,800 posts on Red Sports over a span of five years, that the time had come to just slow down.
The rise of Facebook and Twitter too had a part to play in the decision. Recent news reports said that Singaporeans are the world’s heaviest users of Facebook, averaging 38 minutes and 46 seconds per session.
“People tend to just live on their own Facebook page or Twitter feed, anyway. They just stay there and never leave,” said long-time Red Sports volunteer, Tok Kin Kok. “In fact, for some people, I think they only exist on Facebook or Twitter.”
For the current volunteers working on the site, writing just 140 characters — Twitter’s limit — for one story will be a particular challenge.
“My headlines alone can be 140 characters long!” said disappointed Red Crew Colin Tung, who loves long form editorials. “It is a tragedy that writers these days are only using one word when they could use five instead.”
For other writers, the limit actually makes their work a lot easier.
“There really is nothing to write about anyway at times when Unity or Dunman Secondary play and beat everyone by 30 to 50 points in B Division basketball,” said another Red Crew, Koh Yizhe.
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