They'll have as much success as puffy p-diddy's "Vote or Die"
Whaddya THINK it means, [hillary]?!
Posted on 09/27/2006 6:16:50 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
The youth-heavy online hangout MySpace.com is launching a voter-registration drive to engage its members in civics. In partnership with the nonpartisan group Declare Yourself, MySpace is running ads on its highly trafficked Web site and giving members tools such as a "I Registered To Vote On MySpace" badge to place on their personal profile pages.
"Young people in this country ... are really engaged in what's happening in their community and want to make a difference," said Jeff Berman, MySpace's senior vice president for public affairs. "The key is to make it easy for them to get engaged. By putting these tools on MySpace and putting it in front of their eyes, you make it far more likely they will use them."
News Corp.'s MySpace is the leading online social-networking site, in which users stay connected by adding others as "friends" and expanding their networks by meeting friends of their friends. MySpace offers message boards, Web journals and other free features its members can use to circulate links for video and other items they like.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
Nothing to worry about here. The young folk vote in very small numbers. They're too busy exposing themselves on MySpace anyway.
They'll have as much success as puffy p-diddy's "Vote or Die"
Which will go nicely with their "MySpace Ruined My Life" badge.
As morons.
The young folk vote in very small numbers.And not nearly as heavily Democraticly as the Dims would hope.
-Eric
They'll have as much success as puffy p-diddy's "Vote or Die"
Which might also explain why this group is offering the application in spanish. I've not visitd MySpace, but do you suppose there are many spanish language pages?
They might get a few more registered, but I doubt it will have any impact at the polls.
MYSPACE knows as well as I do
that the bulk of their audience
are under age 16. Any "kid"
18 or over honing onto this
site is a frustrated, immature
dropout.
Bingo.
Half my college is on MySpace.
You are ill-informed.
You don't know how sorry I am for you
and your friends...also for your parents
paying all that tuition.
Egads, have you seen the garbage on that site? Thankfully, most aren't of voting age anyway and those that are haven't the slightest idea where their precinct is.
My 29-year-old niece is on MySpace. I don't believe she has ever voted.
Does Rupert Murdoch own myspace?
I hope they have a better screening process for this than their usual "I super swear I'm over 18" button.
Without Diddy and the My Space guys telling me to, I really don't know how I managed to vote at all, or even know I *could* vote. Of course, I voted for Bush when I was 19 mostly because I couldn't frickin' stand Al Gore, and I somehow doubt their goal is to register people like that. My God, the Republicans might win or something.
MYSPACE knows as well as I do that the bulk of their audience are under age 16.That used to be true, but it's not really so anymore.
-Eric
Virtually all colleges have large numbers on MySpace, facebook, and similar sites, even Ivy League schools.
This is universal, and has nothing to do with the school.
I don't have a MySpace, but I know many who do. Some are very smart people.
But then again, since I go to a Christian school, we don't have people posting the bad things that go on at some other schools. For those at my school, it is just a blog and place to post favorite pictures etc.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.