Looks like Michael Ignatieff, the Liberal Party leader, has taken a lesson from Barack Obama. Ignatieff is now using Facebook to promote himself. He also has a YouTube channel where you can watch him wrestle a duck and a twitter where you can follow his tweets.
Obama has paved the way of campaigning by means of Web 2.0 and social media. But, I think if/when every politician starts using it, then it just becomes another cold tool used for campaign. The warm and special bubbly feeling that we first got when we saw Obama accept our friend request, will turn into a cold, dark numbness. There won’t be anything special about it anymore because the politician won’t have any part of it. It will be their campaign team doing all the updating and personalization. Where’s the heart? Where’s the connection with the people? Gone. Gone. Gone like the mother sea turtle after she lays her eggs on the beach.
Until I see a politician playing Barn Buddy and doing those survey things on Facebook, I will not support them on the basis that they have a FB, YT or T.
