How Obama really did it? He won over his competitors by social networking tools. Obama, the first African-American president, how he became the president is actually a legend. There are many reasons why he won, but the most important aspect is how his group use the social networking to raise the money, to promote his speech and ideas, and so on. All of those aspects make more and more people to support Obama on facebook, twitter, my space.
We are living in a Internet basis society. Most of the young people cannot live without a computer or Internet. Internet became the most important tools for broadcasting, posting news, entertainment, even making friends. It's a much faster way for exchanging the information than the newspaper and television. Now, less and less people who actually read newspaper and watch TV, but more and more people were online, not only the young people but also many seniors are starting to use internet also.
Obama's Campaign ware of that fact, and they make a really good website called MyBO connected with Obama's official site. Those two sites are extremely good at rising money. There is a detail in the article compare his website to Hillary Clinton's. There are 48% of his fund are from the donation of less than $200, but Hillary Clinton only has 33%. On the last second page, the picture clearly shows more people online are supporting Obama. But some of the other Campaigns are not even noticing about that, and it's clearly showed online, they don't even care about the Facebook and MySpace. But those two important websites are dominated by the young people which probably represents the new idea and the future. Whoever can became the leader of those websites, must know all young people's thinking and what is the future should be like in their thoughts, because the future is actually belonging to the new generation.
"It's the economy, stupid!" This year, "It's the network, stupid!" In today's society, who can use the internet wisely, who can win over the world!!
While I was reading your blog I remembered a cartune movie called Wall-e, very cute movie about two different machines feeling in love, one from the Earth and the other one is from the Space. In this movie people leave in Space and computer machines do everything for them, they don't even know how to walk and they talk to each other through the super cool laser screen. If you take a look at our generation right now, basically the same thing is happening, people don't socialize personally, meeting are not in the office, studying not with the books- most of our daily activities happens through a computer and Internet. Of course it's much easier and very smart technology, which is not that easy to figure out , but if you think about it, how many people are actially lonely, don't have real friends they can spend time with or communicate person to person, even though they have hundreds of friends on social network websites. It's use sad.
ReplyDeleteInternet is so powerful right now, sometimes I see or hear news on Facebook, before I see it on TV. And how many of you noticed when you watch news or anything else, how many of them say, " follow us on twitter" or " like us on Facebook ". I agree with Jia's words- the world cannot live without Internet, it became a part of our everyday routine to use Internet, just like brushing teeth twice a day.
I agree with you that Obama's use of the Internet in his campaigning is what got him into the White House. Especially his use of sites like Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter. By using these sites he was able to reach out to a whole other cluster of people that would probably not have been involved in the election. He spread his message and then got a lot of young people involved in the election. I can remember a lot of election advertising on Facebook in 2008. The message was to get out an vote, and because of Obama's presence on the site a lot of the people got out and voted for him. 2008, when the popularity of social networking was rapidly rising, was a great time for a campaign strategy like this. I also agree that people who can utilize the Internet wisely will dominate in the race, it was apparent in the 2008 election.
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