{"id":76222,"date":"2013-11-27T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=76222"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:26:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:26:49","slug":"rashad-evans-twitter-will-hurt-your-damn-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/rashad-evans-twitter-will-hurt-your-damn-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashad Evans: &#8216;Twitter will hurt your damn feelings&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rashad-Evans-PNG.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74254\" title=\"Rashad Evans PNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rashad-Evans-PNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rashad-Evans-PNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rashad-Evans-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rashad-Evans-PNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cIf I read a couple and get mad, and I feel like saying something back? That\u2019s when I know I need to cool out for a second and turn it off. Because Twitter, it\u2019s great, but Twitter will hurt your damn feelings, man.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPeople will say some outrageous things on there. It makes you feel like, man, if I was there with you, I bet a million dollars you wouldn\u2019t even want to think that because you\u2019d be scared I might hear your thoughts and beat the hell out of you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2013\/11\/26\/fighters-on-the-wild-world-of-social-media-twitter-will-hurt-your-damn-feelings-man\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>, former UFC light-heavyweight champion &#8216;Suga&#8217; Rashad Evans discussed the hurtful nature of many people&#8217;s twitter posts.<\/p>\n<p>Social media gives everyone a platform to voice their opinions and public figures are often the victims of harsh and unfair criticism by fans.<\/p>\n<p>Miesha Tate also discussed the negative nature of Social Media and how the UFC doesn&#8217;t prepare their fighters to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s every single day on my Twitter. Literally, every day. They don\u2019t teach you how to deal with that. The UFC encourages you to be active on social media and have a Twitter and all that, but they don\u2019t really tell you how to deal with dummies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPeople who go out of their way to look you up so they can tell you they hate you, even though they\u2019ve never even met you, chances are they probably don\u2019t have an awesome life. The normal, functioning people, they probably don\u2019t spend their whole lives on Twitter telling people they don\u2019t know that they don\u2019t like them. The normal, successful fans of yours are probably at work right now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(quote source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2013\/11\/26\/fighters-on-the-wild-world-of-social-media-twitter-will-hurt-your-damn-feelings-man\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmajunkie.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf I read a couple and get mad, and I feel like saying something back? That\u2019s when I know I need to cool out for a second and turn it off. Because Twitter, it\u2019s great, but Twitter will hurt your damn feelings, man.\u201d \u201cPeople will say some outrageous things on there. 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