Jenn and I were watching the New Hampshire Presidential debates this evening and I noticed that one of the major sponsors of the debate was Facebook. Yes, the same social networking site that claims more of a college students time than studying.
As I said in a post a couple weeks ago about Facebooks recent valuation, I’m a Facebook user and think it has some great things to offer. I remember Facebook having some political groups and pages as far back as the 2006 elections where people could choose candidates and issues to support. I think that’s great. It’s important that politics start to play a larger role in college students lives since they’ll eventually be our nations leaders.
One thing I didn’t notice, maybe it’s because I don’t access Facebook as much lately, is that Facebook has become such a force. I mean really…when did Facebook start sponsoring Presidential debates?!? Are they taking one out of the YouTube book and hoping Google notices? What kind of disgruntled family would that be…Google buys a company Microsoft just invested $500,000 in.
Here is a small shot of the Facebook politics page!
Back to switching between debates and football!
Tags: facebook, Google, politics, presidential debates
that is so funny b/c i was just having a conversation with one of my friends, who got a tour of a *main server hub* in ashburn, va (which is 1 out of the 3 largest server hub locations in america), who mentioned that during her tour the leasing company mentioned that in addition to microsoft and verizon, facebook was one of their main customers….. I went on to ask, when is it that facebook had such a huge presence? apparently it happened while we were all sleeping….