First off, I just had an entire post done and this stupid website deleted it. Blogs are stupid if you aren’t into them and figuring out how they work. Sorry, Nick!
Lets try this again…
I am not going to state the political party to which I belong. I am not going to show favor to any. This is rather a rant about politics in social media and what politics has come to. Politics is a dirty thing. It is more based on slandering your opponent in as many ways as possible than using the facts to come up ahead of one another. Truthfully, we only know what the government wants us to know. Thus, politics is based more off of the slander placed upon each other than it is on the facts. The introduction of social media has fully encouraged this, in my opinion. Yes, technology is good, and can be helpful in some circumstances such as the foreign examples given to us in a homework article the other night. But I am going to focus on politics in social media in the United States. With the election around the corner, this is a great time for this assignment to come up. Social media has opened a lot more doors to politics than available in previous elections. In the 1920s, we started using radios, in the 1950s, we began watching television, in the 1990s, we began using the internet and in todays age, we use a wide array of social media. This gives way to the availability of information in a much greater capacity than back in the ’20s. But is this really a good thing? We can reach an immense audience with the use of social media, compared to that being reached by radios or television previously. However, this really just means that the slandering of your opponent can be reached by a lot more people than before. With the means of technology for your discriminatory photo to be reached by millions of people, it is much more prominent for the discriminatory photos to be created in higher numbers than ever before. Sorry this is kind of a rant, but the point I am trying to prove is that, politics has always been a rather dirty subject, but with the use of social media and increasing technology, it is just getting worse than it ever has been. Scrolling threw facebook, i see tons of pictures favoring one candidate over the other, putting the other down. Yes, we have freedom of speech, but is incorporating politics into social media going to have a good outcome? These photos are mostly one sided, and can shape peoples views poorly if they do not choose to look into it more, but rather believe what they see more of on their Facebook. Just a thought!
*These photos in no way are to show my political views or party of choice, but are rather just a collaboration of ones found via scrolling threw my feed.
melissaaajo 
I totally agree, with the introduction of media, politics is no longer “who is the better leader” but rather “who can make the other look worse.”