There goes another one all Live on Facebook. First it was Lily being shown giving live birth and a fanpage for her all the way and today Congressman Joe Wilson has decided that he will rather use the social network to deliver his live response to President Obama’s Address on the State of the Union.
The decision has put aside the otherwise powerful YouTube platform which has in the past being the preferred platform for anything that was about going live on the Web. The video platform from Google was always in the eyes of campaigners all around the globe and was the default choice, but those days are gone for now. Everyone sees the power of Facebook and the multiple purposes it fills for the users. In talks to CNN, Wilson’s spokesman stated:
Just like you and I would talk with our friends through the Internet [Wilson] is going to sit there with a Mac Book and camera on it and talk directly with people across the country.
Wilson is the same person who had stated ‘ You Lie!’ to President Obama during his speech to a session of Congress. This is the exact spirit he will be bringing to his Fanpage on Facebook, responding to his fans once the State of the Union ends. Talk about entertainment coming Facebook in a very political way. And isn’t he interested to get the words across to the entire population on Facebook. He sent a status update on the page asking his fans to invite their friends to join the page. Now is he actually asking people to join? Who cares? I mean the president used it to become the most powerful man in the world, what’s the harm if he is doing the same just to have a fan following on Facebook?
Whatever it turns out to be, the need to take advantage of social media is rampant all across the globe and amongst all types of people. Be they brands, blogs, celebrities, all the way to the politicians. Sounds very positive and a bright opportunity for the countless social media experts online to have a future in politics too. What do you think? Will you join a political party as a social media expert in any party?
