{"id":38,"date":"2026-02-22T21:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/?p=38"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:16:21","slug":"social-media-diet-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/2026\/02\/22\/social-media-diet-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Diet Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>My Daily Sports Media Routine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>My sports media \u201cdiet\u201d today is pretty simple and steady, and it fits into my daily routine without me even thinking about it. In the mornings, if I\u2019m at home near a TV, I usually start my day watching\u00a0ESPN\u00a0live or catching up on updates through YouTube. When I\u2019m not at home or just on my phone, I get most of my sports content from Instagram and TikTok. The big jumbotron-style TV in Broderick Dining Hall also has ESPN or\u00a0The Pat McAfee Show\u00a0on all day, so even when I\u2019m eating, I\u2019m still getting nonstop sports updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sports I follow the most are the NFL, the MLB, and ODU athletics. My favorite teams are the\u00a0Baltimore Orioles\u00a0and the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys, so most of the content I look at relates back to them. I check sports updates pretty much throughout the whole day. On Instagram, the main page I follow is @DC.Network, which posts Cowboys updates constantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I probably check it nine or ten times a day. On TikTok, I just watch whatever sports highlights or news pop up on my For You Page. Compared to how I used to consume sports when I was younger, my habits now feel way more natural. I\u2019m able to keep up with everything in real time instead of relying on next-day highlight videos. Watching live sports, whether it\u2019s on TV or on my phone, makes me feel more connected to the moment instead of just reacting afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t expect my sports media routine to change much in the next few years. I\u2019ll probably keep watching the same teams and using the same apps, because it works for me. If I could change one thing about the sports media world, I would stop the nonstop expansion of all these \u201cplus\u201d apps. It feels like every sport is creating its own streaming service for a new partnership, and it makes watching games way harder than it needs to be. For example, with spring training starting up, I want to watch the\u00a0Orioles, but I\u2019d have to get MLB Network+ just to see the games. I wish things could go back to when most games were on ESPN or regular cable, because now fans have to jump between five different services just to keep up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Daily Sports Media Routine My sports media \u201cdiet\u201d today is pretty simple and steady, and it fits into my daily routine without me even thinking about it. In the mornings, if I\u2019m at home near a TV, I usually start my day watching\u00a0ESPN\u00a0live or catching up on updates through YouTube. When I\u2019m not at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31973,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31973"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/dkenn013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}