With the emergence of the internet, it has become one of the most basic needs of all the people all over the world. Previously, the use of the internet was just typically for communication. However, as the fast pace of time keeps going the internet is now become useful for students, teachers, political figures and most especially for businessmen. This is what we have called Social Networking. There are various social networks that pops-up in the internet today however the most useful and famous one is Facebook. If you don’t know Facebook you are not updated in the internet society and you were very much behind what’s going on in the community.

So how did this famous Social Network help those internet users in their basic needs?

Facebook for students—Facebook for students is very useful. How? If such for example they have an assignment from school or projects, and they don’t have any ideas about it or maybe they have however, the information they’ve got is still lacking. They can ask their concerns using Facebook by asking the users around through forums or discussions. I’m sure there would be myriad numbers of responses coming.

Facebook for politicians—indeed, Facebook could be a great tool for politicians for their political campaign or any of their political concerns and updates. In fact, Barack Obama is now on Facebook. He used this Social Network tool to listen to his people’s concerns in the United States.

Facebook for businessmen—most of the businessmen used Facebook to connect in their client’s needs. The best thing about Facebook since they can post all the products and services they have. They can both post their products and services through pictures or through their informative articles. And it is easy for them to post their new products in Facebook which can be viewed all over the world.

Facebook for typical internet users—while for typical internet users, Facebook is a good way to learn new things, communicate with friends and interact in any discussions using their own ideas.

The newly elected American president Barack Obama announced that every week he will be directing the citizens with video messages on Youtube.

As Diario Ti commented today as part of its mission to introduce technological tools in the government, Barack Obama announces that weekly he will publish messages to his citizens on Youtube.

The speeches to the people are not an invention of Obama, for various years there has been a custom of the American president to make a weekly speech on the radio for the citizens. However, Obama will make the same message but more compatible with the times, recorded on video and published on Youtube.

The decision to use Youtube as a canal of frequent and lively communication with the American citizens is because it is a technology praised by Obama. Between these things, he has incorporated a text messaging service, Facebook and Twitter in his presidential campaign.

Whilst he waits for his move to the White House, the elected president has already started transmitting the weekly speeches onto video of the democrats. The speeches are also published on the website Change.gov

Many people believe that President-elect Barack Obama’s conquest of the White House would be recorded in the history of US politics as the first election which politicians use social media. It was very successful campaign of the Obama political campaign team since he defeated the Clinton machine and also John McCain, which was a clear victory too for the social media. This is simply because the Obama team who managed his campaign has used the power of social media

Social networking sites like You Tube and Twitter played great rules because millions of people were members of these sites. The microblogging style of twitter was also very helpful because it was widely used in the social campaign of the Obama campaign machinery.

Through the presence of social media tools individual voters have many opportunities to access wide range of information about the candidates who participated in the electoral process. They can easily follow their favorite candidates and know their various platforms of government because of these tools such as blogs, social networks, sharing of photos and videos.

As far as the Obama campaign is concerned, they were able to put up a completely solid campaign and created an unforeseen force through the internet which made them able to raise more funds locally and internationally, and made their best smear campaigns which first topple down the deadly Clinton machine, the JohnMcCain clout as well as the Republicans.

The movement that they’ve created was extra-ordinary as through the power of social media they were able to convince even non-American people to support for the Obama presidency. It was an amazing support of the people of the world to stand by the side of the first black leader to govern America.

There’s no doubt that the unprecedented win of Barack Obama to the presidency in America against his political rival John McCain was also because of the wide support of people who use social media networking sites to actively campaign for Obama.

Twitter alone established special pages just for the “US presidential elections 2008” and the amazing thing that happened were the millions of Americans and non-Americans who responded to the project, such posting their support for Obama, issuing positive comments and more tweets to support the Obama candidacy. This also shows how important social media plays an important role nowadays in the developments of the region, most especially during election that is always awaited by all people of the world.

Even Facebook users associated with him also supported Obama down to the last minute of the campaign trail. This also means Obama has also captured many kinds of audience and not only businessmen and professionals.

I remember few weeks ago over Social Spark there were some opportunities to write about Obama but I was not only lucky, or maybe those opportunities were only for people living in America. I don’t know if the said campaigns came from Obama’s headquarters or from his supporters. That campaign certainly helped since if there were hundreds of opportunities it also means hundreds of weblogs where Obama articles were also posted. I’m sure it also gained thousands of links most especially if the websites have hundreds of followers every day.

Indeed, social media networking nowadays is really helpful – whether you are in business, associations or politicians who want to gain support from the mass base of readers. You only need to consult the experts in online marketing and you can get what you want.

Obama’s win is also history for the American people. He is the first black to become president of the United States of America. Now, many Americans are hoping he could make America great again by initiating very laudable measures helping the economy in America bounce back and many more.

For President-elect Barack Obama, my congratulations! You’re the man to watch in America.

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