Shaki Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 BBC NEWS | Politics | Deputy contenders turn to MySpace"While they are more usually associated with teenage chit chat, the websites are increasingly being used as a campaigning tool by politicians."I'm a teenage chitchatter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulscoconutass Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 Some dude from congress tried to add me a few weeks back, he had thousands of 'friends', seems like a good enough idea to try and make politics sexy and appealing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HummerOfIntenseEvil Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Some dude from congress tried to add me a few weeks back, he had thousands of 'friends', seems like a good enough idea to try and make politics sexy and appealing.There's a much easier way to make politics sexy & appealing though - straight-talking politicians, and parties bringing issues that matter to young people (eg ticket touts) into prominence, and then ACTUALLY doing something about them rather than saying "we're going to set up a phone line which no one will use, but we can't ban touting because of the 3 people per year who are stupid enough to buy tickets for gigs without checking if they're actually free that day first."A media that isn't hell-bent on (rightly or wrongly) making us all believe politicians do exactly the opposite of what we all want would help too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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