Facebook and the Spirit of Democracy
Monday, November 17th, 2008This time the elections in the Unites states of America brought a huge number of people to the polls. A record number of people turned up at the polling stations and voted for the revolution at that extra ordinary day. Along every where else Facbook shared this historical revolutionary and overwhelming moment with its users.As Facebook had been pretty actively participating in before the election activities as well, more than 5.4 million users of Facebook shared their vote choice by making use of the “I vote for button on face book”. This activity made it easier for Facebook users around the world to have an idea of the results of the 44th presidential elections of the USA before they were officially announced. The entire day the count of votes kept running and climbing along it peoples comments and views were also coming inn thought the day. (more…)
