Monday, August 25, 2008

Social Networking Exploding With The Prior Unexplored


Social networking websites have never been at rest and have constantly innovated with the more resourceful than today ever since they have come into being. Today, the web is diversifying itself every moment.
Initially, the whole idea of these websites had revolved around catching up with your friends, following that came the networking of the vets and then the restricted networking of a class with particular interests.
So now, how can our political strategists stay away from such an apparent option that comes as a boon on the web.

Currently, senators like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain are egging effective, creative and political strategies in order to guard their political interests online.
These Presidential candidates are leaving no stone unturned to ensure the best of results from the masses and the best way to do it all is through the social networking sites that connect you to the masses of all different genre in an easy and a compact way.
This ideology was at first enkindled by Dean in 2004 for his presidential run. Visitors could comment on his campaigns, blogs and even donate money online, changing the entire way of campaigning. Ron Paul too, had generated an unbelievable amount of $ 6 million just in a day. And if you think that was big, Barrack Obama recently further upped the stakes in June, when he raised a record reckoning amount of $ 52 million of which $ 31 million were mere donations.

And its not solely for generation of funds that one can harnass the power of social media optimization, these social networking tools also played a vital role and helped Mike Huckabee aggregate 12000 volunteers for his social campaigning.

As famous saying goes, “Everything is fair in Love and War”. this medium can now also be used as taking potshots at each other, with McCain coming up with an ”Anti Barack Obama” ad on McCain Youtube channel indeed igniting the latter to launch a website called “Low Road Express” mocking McCain's reputation.

With all this happening on the E-Circuit, the tremendous potential of these social networking tools have been realized. , and the same can now be looked up as an empowering tool to mobilize the resources and the support at the grassroots and the very shift in the attitude from the traditional means of advertising via newspapers, TV channels to the web points out on the viability of the social networking on the web. It is now safe to say, that social networking has arrived in all walks of life.

5 comments:

O'Neal (The Woman In Charge Around Here) said...

Saw your message on blog catalog. Apologies for falling off, kids started back to school and life is crazy these days!

Seasoned By Grace Designs said...

I have to agree with your post...Social networking is becoming very important. But I have a feeling that if people don't start watching what they say on the internet they will end up being held liable for it. It has been pretty much a "free for all" for a while now on what people say about others, but the internet is starting to evolve and change. Too many now know your ip address when you post to anything and you could end up being held accountable to what you write.
Great post! :)

Doug Cloud said...

I just did a similar post myself about social networking: Twitter Me This, Twitter Me That. For me, the social network has created a doorway to improve not only my social skills but my communication ones as well.

Unknown said...

This post hav some weight in it as it talks abt our world i.e youth nd there surroundings.

The writer is extremely talented nd knws how to raise nd convey serious issues.

Social networkin is so vast nd is in everyone's daily schedule..

All an All great post

johanna said...

Thanks to all of you for your comments. I was a bit stuck up with a lot of work and hence couldn't reply to your comments. Please do keep giving your feedback and all.