Amanda
Vaughn had to make the Hillary Rodham campaign public in two day at University
of North Carolina. In order to get the
word out she gave out filter, made phone calls and put a table out on campus.
What she relied on most though, was Facebook. Vaughn created a Facebook event.
She sent it to 50 people and within a day, those 50 people turned into about
800 people that got an invite to the event.
The older generation, gets their information from filtered conventional
media, while the younger generation is getting their information from non-news
internet sites and each other. The younger generation uses technology more than
ever. The internet, social networks, cell phones and email are where we get our information. These forms of technology
are much more time efficient than waiting for the news to turn on then waiting
an hour before you find out all the information. Youtube is easily accessed and
can bring up and television clip whenever it is wanted. Social networks makes
news spread fast. If there is something that needs to be known, 5 people can
turn to 500 just as easily as 10,000 people can turn into 100,000 to 200,000
people, thanks to social networks.
Amanda
Vaughn says, “Facebook is shaping the political lives of young voters.” I found
this very interesting and extremely true. Most of the information I get about politics
is either from a friend, over Facebook or better yet off Youtube. It is simple
to go get on the computer and type in key words from something you heard about
on Facebook into Youtube on your own time to gather information about something if you ask me. I would agree completely that I see politics in a different way
than my parents do because of social networks.
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