Engineering Politics
One Engineer's view on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness–and of course politics!

…and to follow, Politics and Social Media

And of course writing the last post, I remembered what I have been seeing on Facebook recently.  “Become a fan of this politician, or sign this petition, or sign up for this group”.  Politics have definitely found their way into social media, which is no surprise as politics have a good deal of marketing and communications work to do.

One Response to “…and to follow, Politics and Social Media”

  1. To add to this I found an interesting article that talks about the increased level of political activities of a younger generation–partly enabled by the internet and social media. I am starting to see some of this with the current fight about the HST in Ontario.

    Article here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_media_is_slowly_changing_the_demographics_o.php


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