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Social Sites Offer 'New' Way To Experience Presidential Debates

Posted by Zonk on from the everything-is-novel-on-the-interwebs dept.

News.com notes that the social sites have been burning up in the wake of the debates, as users create more content than it's possible to follow. Facebook specifically set up an area for debate viewers to post messages and take surveys during the events. Some participants found it a bit worthless, and the article refers to the experience as 'information overload'. "No doubt, the political twitterers must've felt empowered to know their Soundboard comments were being beamed out to an audience of potentially millions of Facebook users, and, if plucked by ABC's designated Facebook-monitoring reporter on TV, millions of offline viewers as well. Still, it's a little unclear whether the comments will prove all that useful for campaigns looking to boost their candidates' standing."

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  1. Re:Fr0sty P1ss! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Robots do not want to have sex with you. Are you listening, Japan? I don't have a clever comparative simile for this, because frankly you bags of meat will fuck bicycles if they're laying down and not putting up a fight. Just stop it. There is no robot on Earth that wants to see a bag of meat with a small prong on the end approaching it with a can of WD-40 and a hopeful smile. And don't get me started on that terrifying hole that squeezes out more bags of meat.
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  2. Re:One thing I don't get about the 2008 Election by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Proof that Vista voice recognition works! by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There is no way the poster is intelligent enough to type. Clearly though logging on was too challenging.

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  4. Leaders of the Free World by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It is telling that USA - self proclaimed land of the free and leader of the free world - has not had a woman or non-white as leader and where being exposed as gay would destroy a political career.

    "Maggie Thatcher has balls" shows that having a female leader does not make you any weaker. Nor for that matter kykes, spics, chinks etc.

    Being a redneck scaredy-pants is a sign of weakness, not strength.

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