Few months before elections, people were busily campaigning for their candidates. They either Join or Like a Group pertaining to their candidate, status their candidate's color or attach Twibbons or any distinguishing paraphernalia into their profile pictures.
Weeks before elections, posts became more competitive, offensive and unfriendly. Hater Group pages appear out of nowhere and my news feed would be flooded of notifications of people joining this group and that until it came to a point when I can clearly distinguish who among the people in my friends' lists are supporters of green, red and seldom but still present, yellow.
On the election day itself, well I think you could imagine what everyone's news feed will contain :D
On the days of the partial announcement of election results, people were more active in terms of expressing their sentiments about the elections: the number of hours they lined up in their precincts and how it was all worth it, their praise and thanks for the country's successful automated elections, their congratulations and blessings to their supported candidates and never to forget, their disappointment -some violent and some well, civil.
I'm not writing to say I'm pissed or disappointed. Rather I'm impressed with the hype of elections in online networking sites which clearly says that the youth, which I assume are the most active users of these sites, are not at all indifferent to the world outside their comfort zones. This means that we are not only joining a group or liking a page to express our cheesiest trivias about ourselves (like how we like Glee, food, etc.) yet through this virtual world, we are also able to voice out our say about the elections and most especially the candidates. This clearly magnifies everyone's freedom to expression and opinion. To be free from inhibitions and not being scared to say what's on our mind is a good way to exercise our right to democracy :)
And yeah, I was right all along that Gibo is indeed my generation's bet :)) here are some of the fan pages I found in my news feed after the unofficial partial results:
What did Gibo do to win the hearts of my generation! :))
But after all these hype about the elections, what do you think would happen a year later (or even months later)?
Users could be back to their non-political lives, which means:
Well that was just a prediction, which I'm hoping they'll prove me wrong. (I'm hoping to prove myself wrong too haha)
With this, I really don't mind if I'll see 6 months later people liking political fan pages or even statuses about the new president's performance or what.
So much for Glee. or Gossip Girl. Gay :)))
Weeks before elections, posts became more competitive, offensive and unfriendly. Hater Group pages appear out of nowhere and my news feed would be flooded of notifications of people joining this group and that until it came to a point when I can clearly distinguish who among the people in my friends' lists are supporters of green, red and seldom but still present, yellow.
On the election day itself, well I think you could imagine what everyone's news feed will contain :D
On the days of the partial announcement of election results, people were more active in terms of expressing their sentiments about the elections: the number of hours they lined up in their precincts and how it was all worth it, their praise and thanks for the country's successful automated elections, their congratulations and blessings to their supported candidates and never to forget, their disappointment -some violent and some well, civil.
I'm not writing to say I'm pissed or disappointed. Rather I'm impressed with the hype of elections in online networking sites which clearly says that the youth, which I assume are the most active users of these sites, are not at all indifferent to the world outside their comfort zones. This means that we are not only joining a group or liking a page to express our cheesiest trivias about ourselves (like how we like Glee, food, etc.) yet through this virtual world, we are also able to voice out our say about the elections and most especially the candidates. This clearly magnifies everyone's freedom to expression and opinion. To be free from inhibitions and not being scared to say what's on our mind is a good way to exercise our right to democracy :)
And yeah, I was right all along that Gibo is indeed my generation's bet :)) here are some of the fan pages I found in my news feed after the unofficial partial results:
What did Gibo do to win the hearts of my generation! :))
But after all these hype about the elections, what do you think would happen a year later (or even months later)?
Users could be back to their non-political lives, which means:
- Farmville, Horoscope, God Wants You To Know would once again flood everyone's news feed
- People's statuses would less likely be about their hated or beloved candidates but more likely be about their usual daily routines, school rants and subtle messages to someone special.
- People would be back to liking ridiculous and funny pages such as this one.
- Lots and lots of tagged pictures, who's friend with who, etc.
Well that was just a prediction, which I'm hoping they'll prove me wrong. (I'm hoping to prove myself wrong too haha)
With this, I really don't mind if I'll see 6 months later people liking political fan pages or even statuses about the new president's performance or what.
So much for Glee. or Gossip Girl. Gay :)))
