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White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter
theodp writes "The official White House Blog called the move WhiteHouse 2.0 as the Obama administration unveiled its membership in a trio of the social-networking leaders: Facebook (157,606 fans and counting), MySpace (174,817 friends and counting) and Twitter (34,612 followers and counting)."
I understand that these three social networking applications are popular, but I am already burning out on this trend. I was an early adopter but find myself just wanting to take a step back from the herding masses and regroup. I wonder if these proprietary web applications are really worthy of such Presidential endorsement. Perhaps we're just piling on the craze with Ellen, Ashton, and Oprah, as well as every texting teen and their friends with benefits. Its a good thing to see alternatives to newspaper start taking a hold, but I can't help but feel a little bit as though "we the sheeple" are being herded into this arrangement. Like cellular, its promise comes at a price, and with a commitment to corporate media monoliths. And I just hate feeding corporations in order to participate in the public community. I'll be interested to see how the White House copes with this bold dive into the national social networking media blast.
I agree in principle, but the fact of the matter is that the sites they're choosing to use to spread that information have some of the most godawful security records. If we're relying on Obama's tweets for information, it's going to suck when some staffer gets hit with a worm while checking out some hot chick's profile and the next thing the rest of the world sees is something akin to Russia being outlawed.
I wonder if through ANY of this, Obama is going to keep one of his election stump promises, to publish every bill he's going to sign, in its entirety at least 5 days before he signs it?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Only if you're stupid enough to believe his projections. Not to mention that on the level the .gov plays at, cash accounting debt is almost utterly meaningless. Accrual accounting is all that's important, and the spending outlays Obama's attempting to ram through will make the current SocSec/MediCare outlays(Which rack up to somewhere between 70-90 trillion dollars) look like fucking chump change.