Simply reading this title proves my point.

I found a good article today. It’s not so much an article, more like an announcement.

“Facebook, the popular social networking site, has become a full-fledged platform for communicating, sharing and advertising. ABC News is betting that it will become a platform for political coverage, as well.

ABC News and Facebook have formally established a partnership -- the site's first with a news organization -- that allows Facebook members to electronically follow ABC reporters, view reports and video and participate in polls and debates, all within a new 'U.S. Politics' category.”

This is a pretty big deal. Facebook has 55 million active users. Half of these users are in college or high school. If that’s not a media outlet to a huge chunk of impressionable minds, I don’t know what is. By allowing any user to create an application, the media has the opportunity to reach and impact the political decisions in a way different from a newspaper or magazine. The application supported by ABC is called “US Politics;” it allows users to display candidates and politicians they support, participate in debates, and a convenient link to look at recent ABC news on the application’s homepage. Just the fact that you, kind reader, are on Facebook reading this blog serves to represent the ability of anyone to display their opinions in a popular, prevalent way.

The utilizations of social networking websites for the media are endless; so endless that I’m going to do more poking around on the ole world wide web for more information.

An interview with Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

The last paragraph of this article brings up an interesting point. “After ten months online, a Facebook group called ‘1,000,000 Strong for Barack Obama’ has only 164,000 members, but a parody group called ‘1,000,000 Strong for Stephen Colbert’ topped a million members in just ten days.” Ah, funny people always prevail.