Myspace and facebook have helped so much in the years political campaigns. These two sites promote each party equally, with the pages of the parties and even group dedicated to them. The sites also allow young voters learn more about who they are voting for, and what each candidate stands for. On facebook itself you can join so many groups for just Obama or just McCain, or you can even join proposals. You can watch live video feeds on each candidates pages, and find new updates on where their next campaign stop is. Its much easy to get teenagers to follow these pages and site than to have them sit through a debate if they dont really know anything about politics. Having them learn the basics that each candidate stands for they will become more interested and want to watch the debates and support a candidate.
Since Mivote is connected to UMD and PBS, our voices get to be heard. Like Tom Murphy told us hundreds of kids go on the site and post videos and things that matter to them in the is election. Being able to hear what most people are talking about and understanding their views would help other make their decisions or agrue with the others opinions. This sites techniques to target the undecided voters, works so much better then wanting to have a town meeting. Instead of hearing people that cant really relate to the college students, telling us what they think that we are worried about, we can hear from peers and share our own opinions with this site.
Most if my friends on facebook have joined a group for their candidate or one bombing the other. Either way they are all pretty much showing some sort of support to one candidate and staying loyal. It is so much easier to share your ideas on the election with these sites available, and you also get feed back from your friends. With the connections between joining these goups and the comments from your peers, these site help out in many ways to get voters ready to make the right decision at the polls.
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FINALLY! someone else did the blog assignment!
Anyway good point on the facebook and myspace political groups, I forgot to mention them in my post. It's a good way to get to the point and read about what matters to you.
You are so right, Facebook and Myspace have had big effects on this election. It has also made it kind of intresting with all the different groups you can join.
I deffinitely agree with you. Myspace and Facebook are very informative to us young voters, without it, I feel that many of us wouldnt be voting. I'm greatful that we have social networking sites that we use all the time, to also help us keep track on the elections. Good job!
I agree with everyone. Myspace & Facebook are good ways to learn about the election. And it doesn't matter who you vote for, because you can still get involved.
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