Stop Abusing Pro's Review of Social Media Platform Viktre.

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Viktre’s Mission Statement is In 2014, we set out to create the world's largest global network of sports stars.

Why? Because we believe a community of athletes—past and present—working together has the power to positively IMPACT the lives of millions of people.

We believe athletes have more to offer their fans than their ability to hit a ball or score a goal.

We believe athletes have the power To Connect. To Transform. To Teach.

But athletes need a partner to organize and empower the community to realize its potential.

And that is VIKTRE's reason for existence and ultimate purpose.

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Viktre is a new social media platform. Unlike many other plaforms such as Instagram, Facebook, twitter; The primary focus of Viktre is to give athletes a new way to communicate with each other with more privacy.

For the regular person, seeking to see what their favorite professional athlete is doing, they would most likely be better off staying on Instagram and other social media platforms.

I saw many similarities between Viktre and social media platform LinkedIn. Viktre stood out to me as a very professional platform. Similar to LinkedIn, the people you connect with or follow, usually have some workplace connection to the user. Unlike Instagram and Twitter, messages and angry users can not directly contact the athlete, unless the athlete follows them. One aspect that stood out to me was that on Viktre, the huge amount of followers professional athletes have on other platforms, was no longer a factor, Ezekiel Elliot has around 120 followers on the Viktre, compared to a whopping 2.5 million followers on Instagram.

I believe that more athletes should be using Viktre, not instead of other platforms, but as a more professional alternative to helping their career. Through the use of Viktre, Athletes can remove the potential of receiving hate from angry users and “trolls.” I highly recommend not only professional athletes, but also student athletes and regular people become part of the Viktre network. Student Athletes would benefit from using Viktre as a recruiting portfolio, where coaches could easily contact them and simplify the recruiting process for all sports.

I believe that Viktre could possibly be a solution to the problem of hate and abuse athletes receive online. I do not think that this will be the final solution as athletes will continue to receive hate on other platforms, however, it is most definitely a step in the right direction.