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Mary Woodward posted a Facebook page against the governor’s tax shift onto seniors in February and the movement grew into a rally on the Capitol steps. The rally was organized by the Michigan chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons to protest Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s proposed tax shift that would raise taxes on seniors and the poor to pay for corporate tax cuts

Profile in Cowardice: Facebook pulls Draw Muhammed page and apologizes to Muslims, ignores free speech

Infographic on devolution of privacy on Facebook (click to advance the years)

More Facebook users report being female than there are females in U.S.

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Lunch with a Purpose, created by Good Fruit Video’s community-committed Justin Caine, asks people to volunteer one lunch hour each week, with Facebook as the organizing tool.

Lunch with a Purpose, created by Good Fruit Video’s community-committed Justin Caine, asks people to volunteer one lunch hour each week, with Facebook as the organizing tool.

This image is from a Facebook “fan” page created by a man who obviously has a beef with Lansing Mayor and now gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero. A man who logged in as Stuart Rinck left similar charges on Lansing Online News alleging that Bernero failed to make good on a debt for damages to his wife’s car after an auto accident. My point in displaying this is to show how much social media has changed politics. From the “macaca” moment on YouTube that ended Senator George Allen’s presidential aspirations to this Facebook “fan” page, people running for office today can no longer count on the traditional media’s role as gatekeeper no longer has the power to shut the door on such stories. In this era, we would know how badly Roosevelt had been ravaged by polio - and imagine the cellphone Twitpics of JFK we could expect to see of him cavorting with Fiddle and Faddle in the White House pool. More innocent times to be sure — but also much less honest.

This image is from a Facebook “fan” page created by a man who obviously has a beef with Lansing Mayor and now gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero. A man who logged in as Stuart Rinck left similar charges on Lansing Online News alleging that Bernero failed to make good on a debt for damages to his wife’s car after an auto accident. My point in displaying this is to show how much social media has changed politics. From the “macaca” moment on YouTube that ended Senator George Allen’s presidential aspirations to this Facebook “fan” page, people running for office today can no longer count on the traditional media’s role as gatekeeper no longer has the power to shut the door on such stories. In this era, we would know how badly Roosevelt had been ravaged by polio - and imagine the cellphone Twitpics of JFK we could expect to see of him cavorting with Fiddle and Faddle in the White House pool. More innocent times to be sure — but also much less honest.