 |
| Thanks for your like...er..er....Vote! |
This is a kind of childish scenario where the government of a nation is assumed to be just a Facebook account. Well, it may sound crazy at first, but if you delve into it you realize there is some merit in this assumption. It would first start from an election campaign and then of course follow the work of the government, in all its spheres and then of course in the end with another election.
Just like any prima donna the parties going at it update their pictures and their covers with the intent of more likes. Number of seats? Well one each for display picture, cover picture and a status update, one who gets more likes forms the government. Falling a wee bit short on majority, they add some new friends to accrue their likes as well and somehow get over the line. Then of course that access to all important user name and password for the account of power. The newly elected government doesn't know much policies so for the time being they such share the posts of the erstwhile government, with their own edits of course. The opposition are critical of the government's foreign policy, claiming that the foreign office folks are offline most of the time and thus unable to have any concerted policy. The government has its own propaganda agenda, the folks are suppose to be on-line all the time because the government wants to share its events(life events) when more people are available on the network and vice versa. Any bills presented for discussion will require at least two-third of the account holders to be on-line.
The parliament would be an open Facebook group with members added and removed as per the number of like they have garnered in the last election.So, what if the opposition intends to have a no-confidence motion against the government? They just post a message in the group to that effect. Now consider the mundane din that goes on in the parliament all the time. In such a case, the parliament speaker, in this parlance, the 'group admin' simply changes the privacy of the group to closed for a nominal amount of time. The political rallies would be about updating your location. The newly popular year end review would be again the propaganda for the year end achievements. And then the indispensable part of political campaigns, slander. Apparently, Facebook meme are the tool most adept to it these days. Needless to say, the political parties can conjure them up and share it at will. It is a good move because memes can spread themessage, plus it doesn't have to be true either. So this was my take if the government were just a Facebook account, feel free to comment about how other social networks can fit into some of our most conventional social networks.
Just like any prima donna the parties going at it update their pictures and their covers with the intent of more likes. Number of seats? Well one each for display picture, cover picture and a status update, one who gets more likes forms the government. Falling a wee bit short on majority, they add some new friends to accrue their likes as well and somehow get over the line. Then of course that access to all important user name and password for the account of power. The newly elected government doesn't know much policies so for the time being they such share the posts of the erstwhile government, with their own edits of course. The opposition are critical of the government's foreign policy, claiming that the foreign office folks are offline most of the time and thus unable to have any concerted policy. The government has its own propaganda agenda, the folks are suppose to be on-line all the time because the government wants to share its events(life events) when more people are available on the network and vice versa. Any bills presented for discussion will require at least two-third of the account holders to be on-line.
The parliament would be an open Facebook group with members added and removed as per the number of like they have garnered in the last election.So, what if the opposition intends to have a no-confidence motion against the government? They just post a message in the group to that effect. Now consider the mundane din that goes on in the parliament all the time. In such a case, the parliament speaker, in this parlance, the 'group admin' simply changes the privacy of the group to closed for a nominal amount of time. The political rallies would be about updating your location. The newly popular year end review would be again the propaganda for the year end achievements. And then the indispensable part of political campaigns, slander. Apparently, Facebook meme are the tool most adept to it these days. Needless to say, the political parties can conjure them up and share it at will. It is a good move because memes can spread themessage, plus it doesn't have to be true either. So this was my take if the government were just a Facebook account, feel free to comment about how other social networks can fit into some of our most conventional social networks.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Bring out the eggs....eh...feedback