It’s no secret that tennis legend Serena Williams enjoys engaging with fans on social media. Be it sharing her fitness routines, talking about mental health, or giving advice to working moms, she likes to keep in touch with her followers. In fact, in 2017, during an interview with USA Today, she spoke about why social media matters.
Serena Williams believes it’s really awesome to have the opportunity and platform to express our feelings and speak up for social issues, or to advocate for what’s right, as well as to address the bad things. “Now you just open up your phone and you can say something, or you can post something, or you can shoot a video. It can reach so many people and impact so many lives by just taking 10 seconds,” said Williams. In order to get closer to her die-hard fans, Williams has now come up with a new thing on Instagram.
She recently uploaded a video clip on her Instagram stories. In that clip, she announced, “Hey, everyone, welcome to my subscriptions. I’m trying something new. So, bear with me. I wanted to give a few people like a different look and an exclusive look at little things behind the scenes. Some things that I do, some motivational things, some fun things.” In the captions, she asked her fans to follow her and head over to her page for exclusive content and click the ‘Subscribe’ option.
Talking about sharing some interesting daily updates with her fans, just a few days ago, she shared a video clip where she was seen enjoying a make-up session conducted by her two daughters, Olympia and Adira. And let’s just say, they have only improved since the last time they were seen giving their mom a makeover. More recently, she shared glimpses of her workout session with her fans on IG with the caption, “Working out and working on my angles.”
For most athletes, physical decline after retirement is almost inevitable, but for Serena Williams, that’s not the case; she still resembles a temple of fitness, with abs that look like they have been sculpted by hand.
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Be it sharing her adorable moments with her daughters on social media or showcasing her incredible fitness routines, this 43-year-old super mom never fails to impress her fans on social media. However, despite all the good things about social media, she always takes some extra caution when it comes to her kids using any of these platforms.
Serena Williams shares her thoughts on kids using social media
In September 2024, while talking about Olympia, Serena Williams revealed that she doesn’t allow her young daughter on “certain” social media platforms. She claimed that she wants to ensure her little girl is protected from the “scary” online world and also spoke about her plans to take things a little slow when it comes to her access to electronics. This thing popped up shortly after her close friend, Kim Kardashian, revealed she got her young son to sign a strict contract before agreeing to let him have his own YouTube Channel.
Even this year in February, Williams shared her thoughts on her kids using social media and spoke about how important it is for social media to be a safe place for kids. She said, “As a parent, I of course worry about my kids one day getting on social media. As an investor, I am always looking for technology that helps navigate that.” In that same conversation, she spoke about how Zigazoo, a child-safe social media platform, can remove all these worries and make social media a safer place for the kids.
Just last month, even Alexis Ohanian, who made his name as the co-founder of Reddit, shared his thoughts on how important it is to educate children on the ill-effects of social media. Taking to Instagram, he said, “I do think it’s really important that we arm our kids with an understanding of just how fake and performative most of social media is. It’s sort of weaponizing the worst parts of youth culture and peer pressure, making it a situation game of likes and follows, and not healthy. Y’all can get this done. You don’t need a government ban to ban it in your own house, and I highly recommend it. Not a bad place to start.”
So, despite being so active on social media, sharing updates with their fans through their accounts, both Williams and Ohanian are well aware of its good and bad. Share your thoughts on the latest update put on by Serena Williams on her IG account.
