Twitter is easy to use to promote a candidate or a viewpoint since it can be anonymous and impersonal.
However....
Using Facebook to promote your candidate or issues is not always as easy for people, but it can be done, and for some even, they don’t mind sharing their opinions at all with anyone! LOL But still, it can be harder sometimes.
Why can Facebook be a little harder to share politics?
Well, first of all, your Facebook is YOU. A Facebook account will usually have more personal information about you, and you are sharing your Facebook updates and posts with friends.
And let’s face it, not all of your friends are going to think just like you..... And you may still want them as friends beyond the election! LOL
But if you do have a Facebook account and want to use it to get the word out to your friends, family, and other Facebook friends, it’s usually as easy as either writing your own post, clicking a Facebook “like” button from a website, or copying and pasting a URL and putting it on your Facebook homepage in the same place you would normally write something in about how you are doing, what you are up to, or what you think about something.
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Here’s an example of how you might promote a candidate to your friends on a Facebook page:
And this is a real-life example from MY own Facebook.
On September 9, 2011 at 7:56 PM, I posted the following update on my Facebook page:
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(Exact words and link from my September 9, 2011 Facebook post)
This is from one of the Republican presidential candidates, Herman Cain, but whether you are a Republican, Democrat, both, or nothing at all, this is a beautiful reminder that we must never, never, never, never forget.
And I posed this link right below my status update:
Herman Cain sings ‘God Bless America’ in 9/11 tribute video
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/herman-cain-sings-god-bless-america-9-11-214420864.html
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That was a simple way to share something about Herman Cain to my friends, to even those who are not Republican, and so far as I know, no one complained. I even got several Facebook “likes”, and that’s a good thing because that video is now on someone else’s Facebook page for their friends to see too.
See how it works?
That’s pretty much all I have to offer as far as getting you started on promoting our conservative candidates on Twitter and Facebook.
I hope I have helped.
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Now...
Does anyone have anything else to offer?
If anyone has any helpful info or insight to offer other Freepers as to how to set up a Twitter or Facebook account or have used Twitter or Facebook already and want to share any good or bad experiences, please feel free to post on this thread too!
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FEEL FREE TO ADD YOUR FAVORITE CONSERVATIVE TWITTER ACCOUNTS AND WEBSITES TO POST OR RE-TWEET HERE IN THIS THREAD NOW TOO!
Also feel free to add some of your own Twitter accounts on any of our Republican candidates in this thread as well if it has anything that could be re-tweeted to help us get the GOOD words out and to win over the Presidency and Congress in 2012.
This thread is open to others for additional helpful comments and Twitter accounts or favorite conservative websites we can re-tweet or post on our Facebook accounts.
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Best wishes to all who Tweet and Facebook their candidate to a victory over Obama!
Respectfully submitted by:
Cas