Things like this make me smile: Barack Obama vs. John McCain.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Granted, McCan't doesn't have the voting block of the young and hip, but considering all the older adults I've started seeing on Facebook and the fact that Facebook is open to the general public, it's hardly a bastion of angsty teenagers and clueless college-age young adults anymore and becoming less and less young and "fringe-y" by the day.

Politicians, musicians, products, restaurants, etc. can all have "Pages" on Facebook, of which FB members can become "supporters." Both John McCain and Barack Obama have such pages. As of 12:49 ET, John McCain's official FB page had 144,746 supporters, adding one supporter in the time I refreshed between 12:48 and 12:49 ET. Barack Obama at the same time had 983,856 supporters, and earlier from 12:37 to 12:39 ET he had added 23 members (at 12:39 ET he was at 983,792 members). Between 12:39 and 12:49--ten minutes--he went from 983,792 to 983,856 supporters; that's a jump of 64 supporters, or 6.4 supporters a minute, roughly.

Doing more comprehensive statistical analysis on this and similar pages would be very interesting, I'm sure. I'm positive the Obama campaign is far more "in" with the internet than McCain is, and I think that, should McCain lose come November, this ineptitude with the internet will be a considerable factor in his (hopeful) defeat.

The times, the media, the people involved, their tastes--they're all a-changin'.

:)

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

1. Wow! McCain has an internet?

Will wonders never cease?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. I know--I was much surprised.

He's got 'is own goddamned tube!

:rofl:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Hey you realize Obama has Miles Davis listed #1 in his musical favorites, right?

http://www.facebook.com/barackobama

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder,
Johann Sebastian Bach (cello suites), and The Fugees

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. Yeahyeah!

I definitely saw that. :D

[CanonRay]

5. Great observation!

I often wonder how many of these people have only cell phones, are not listed in phone books, and never get polled.

:applause:

[americanstranger]

6. The guy who built FaceBook is O's top internet guy.

Advantage: Obama.

- as

[27inCali]

7. time for the Dinos to step aside

I think the fact that McCain is so backwards he hasn't taken the time in the last 30 something years that computers have been to learn how to use one.

unforgiveable.

think about how much a computer contributes to the efficiency of any administrative function -this guy can't use the most helpful administrative tool in the world right now, but he wants to become the most important and crucial administrator in the world?

hello?