Social networking allows us to form interest groups in ways we could never have imagined before. I am a political activist with the South Carolina Democratic Party, and believe me, it is extremely difficult to organize like-minded people because for one it is extremely hard to find them in the first place, and secondly it’s tough once you find them to organize them. Will Rogers once answered a question about his political affiliation by saying “I’m not a member of an organized political party…I’m a Democrat,” and I can say that the legendary Mr. Rogers is not far off at all. But social networks allow us to easily identify supporters by keywords and go beyond just grouping friends and acquaintances together to put together people of the same political persuasion in order to pursue liberal policy goals here in South Carolina and make a real difference.
The most important point made here is that social networking isn’t just a convenient way to organize your friends, but it’s a way to organize people you might not even know yet to change the world in ways you could only imagine before. Social networking isn’t a toy for amusement, even though it can certainly serve that purpose, but a way to move people in a way that can be truly influential. I have found that social networking can be a good way to reach people that you not only don’t know yet, but have never even met! We are still only beginning to explore the depths of the influence of social networks.
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