Politics and Social Media
Politics is an area where it is easy to see how much has changed in our world in regards to social media over just a few short decades. When we entered this century social media wasn’t even a thing and political campaigns were run through traditional media. The only real chance a politician had to make their thoughts on a subject heard was during debates and those were only for the people who bothered to tune in and weren’t distracted by whatever happened to be on the other television channels that night. There were both advantages and disadvantages to seeing politics in the old fashioned way. It’s true that we usually only saw the things about our politicians that their campaigns wanted us to see. Comments were usually prepared well in advance and it was rare to get a personal connection or even to see a politician as a person. There wasn’t much difference in news channels and most everyone saw the same news about both parties. Fake news was no...