Kyler Murray’s social media scrubbing on Monday could amount to something, or it could amount to nothing. Some of us grew up in the age of the AOL Away Message and, let’s be honest, when something was on our minds, we weren’t exactly presenting a sober and accurate assessment of the situation on that little yellow digital notepad. A few Linkin Park lyrics later and the person on the other end of the monitor didn’t know how upset we were, or about what.
Cleaning out a social media account is sort of the modern version of our old online temper tantrums, though high level athletes have perfected it to an art form. Deleting all evidence of an employer, spouse or, in this case, team, is about three levels above “accidentally” liking a post critical of the G.M. It’s one level below posting screw this, I’m out of here. Minus a preemptive announcement that you’re undergoing some page maintenance, there is no way to believe something is not happening.
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