Friday, November 2, 2012
Politics via the internet. (blog 8)
For this blog post we were told to give our view on the influence of politics on social media sites. From my own personal experience I can't stand seeing people talk politics on Facebook, twitter, etc. My reasoning behind this is simply because people throw their own opinions into anything with out doing any research and even proving that what they say is right. They will simply just start throwing facts at a strong liberal or conservative simply because they support the other party. In some ways social media can help with political understanding, such as if there is a government sponsored twitter or facebook account that is only in existence to provide information to those who do not follow politics or would like to know more about the topics at hand. Other than that I believe that politics should not be on social media sites, it only makes people frustrated and frankly look stupid when they talk with know knowledge.
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I completely agree with you. When people post their opinions about politics on social networking, it doesn't ever change my view. Mainly because (as you mentioned before) they never back up their statement or give reason as to why they believe this or that; if anything it makes me disagree with them more. But I do feel that using social networking for campaigns do help by giving us a visual and more clear understanding of their objective.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you. People's posts about their views has little to no impact on my views. Also has you stated, no one seems to back up their opinion and, therefore, it seems to stay as a random thing they state even though it may not be true.
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