Obama's Social Media

Internet has more viewers than all other news and entertainment industry combined, this includes newspaper and T.V. But for years this massive attraction has gone unnoticed, until President Obama. President Obama is the first man to realize the potential of the internet and to utilize its powers to help him gain the votes of the young generation. He used social media websites such as youtube, hulu, blogs, facebook, myspace, forum, etc, to help spread his political campaign. Even though he wasnt as experienced as other candidates, he used all the famous website to portray to the young generation's that he was one of them. He appeared to be a member of the community and as soon as his campaign began he received massive support from this community. which is comparable to the social community the kids from Frontline: Growing Up Online is involved in. As he became more young and hipper to the youths, it also led to a social second life; It's almost like running for office both in reality and in fantasy, but in this era the fantasy can hold immense powers.