I thought I would share a quick story with the class. Two summers ago I worked at the capital building interning at a State Senators office. He is a life time politician, one of those guys who tells stories of how the democrats and republicans used to finalize the budget together at a bar on a napkin, but now everything is so political.
Well a few months before I started working there he started a facebook account. Posting pictures of events that he went to, status updates about trips to his district. Well one night he wrote a negative rant about a fellow senator. One office staffer saw this and called him in horror explaining that his profile is public and that anyone, not just friends, can see what he wrote.
What I take from this is that what we take for granted shows that while experimenting with the internet politicians are also learning that reaching a mass audience can have pitfalls as well
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