LPGA star Charley had a daring suggestion in gentle of the TikTok ban within the U.S.
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Not less than briefly within the U.S. over the weekend, TikTok was no extra. That features GOLF’s personal TikTok account (which you will discover right here). Whereas folks have blended emotions in regards to the ban, one standard professional doesn’t simply help it, she thinks it doesn’t go far sufficient.
Final week, the U.S. Supreme Court docket declined to cease a bipartisan legislation banning TikTok within the U.S. On Saturday, January 18, the ban went into impact, with TikTok all of a sudden inaccessible to customers within the U.S.
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The ban is controversial, with supporters arguing it’s a nationwide safety danger, and avid customers up in arms over the lack of their favourite app.
Incoming President Donald Trump then introduced that he would transfer to delay the ban. On Sunday TikTok responded on X stating that they’d begun restoring service.
However simply earlier than TikTok was banned (after which un-banned), LPGA star Charley Hull addressed her military of Instagram followers. After acknowledging the ban, she urged society ought to now go “old style,” “ban all social media” and return to utilizing non-smart cell telephones.
“TikTok is being banned, to be trustworthy I feel we must always all be going again to old style,” Hull wrote, “ban all social media return to a Nokia cellphone and dwell life within the second.”
However why does Hull suppose we’d be higher off by banning all social media?
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“Assure the entire world could be a happier and more healthy place,” Hull mentioned to shut out the story.
For the file, Hull’s Instagram follower depend stands at a powerful 712,000. Her fame grew considerably in recent times, in no small half attributable to viral social media moments.
Most golf followers bear in mind the viral firestorm over Hull’s cigarette smoking behavior on the course.
Golf as an entire has a blended relationship with social media and the smartphones folks use to entry them. Augusta Nationwide nonetheless doesn’t enable cell telephones on the premises throughout Masters week. The identical is true at many non-public golf equipment.
Nonetheless, leisure golfers more and more rely upon cell telephones for issues like yardages. And the golf sphere on social media is rising exponentially.
The PGA Tour now embraces cell telephones and social media. A sea of telephones seize each massive match second, with followers blanketing social channel with pictures and movies afterward.
As well as, new-look golf leagues like TGL and LIV Golf have put an emphasis on social media advertising and marketing and protection. In the meantime, Bryson DeChambeau has turn out to be simply the newest golf YouTube star.
