Following the first ever Victorian
U18 Youth Girls team tour to Brisbane in 2007, team member Jen Plumb (pictured right) decided to set up a MySpace page for the team, which also included a touring party of three umpires. It appeared to be a hit, with the girls uploading photos, songs and comments reminiscing of the good old days of the week before when they conquered all before them in Interstate Challenge I. There wasn't much interest in Facebook by the Youth Girls crew back then, and so, MySpace endured. In 2008, when Interstate Challenge II was held in Melbourne, the Victorian Youth Girls team's MySpace page was updated to include the new players that had joined the squad.
In the meantime, we continued to update the Youth Girls website with new photos and articles of news and other female football miscellany to keep the interested world interested, engaged and informed.Then something happened to me in 2009 - I stopping checking my personal email account hourly, I forgot my MySpace password and I stopped calling my friends regularly on the telephone for an update. Instead I began checking their Facebook status to check that they were still alive and that they were emotionally okay. I did have a crack at Twitter but there just wasn't enough interest. It seems that if celebrity Tweeter, Ashton Kutcher played in the Youth Girls competition, I would have had an audience. Besides, it seemed like such a waste of time checking Twitter to get status updates, when I could get that very thing, and more, on Facebook.
Facebook appears to have everything. Photos, stories, games, videos, music - all in very linear and orderly manner...just how I like things to be.
And so now, Youth Girls is on Facebook...as well as MySpace and Twitter but they don't really get a look in.
It seems like the Youth Girls community has come along for the ride as well. There are hundreds of Youth Girls and their families on Facebook...and well, if the mountain won't come to Muhammed then... you get my drift.
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