While she hasn’t granted any interviews to the press since her resignation as Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin is using social networking sites Facebook and Twitter to stay relevant in national discourse.
Palin has almost 900,000 friends on Facebook and approximately 140,000 friends on Twitter. The only politician to have more friends on both social networks is President Barack Obama. The former vice president nominee has managed to interject her opinion on several national issues such as healthcare, energy policy and tort reform.
In August, she flipped liberals’ wigs when she posted two threads on her Facebook profile insinuating that legislation penned by Democrats in the House proposed the creation of “death-panels,” which would decide end of life care.
According to former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, “Facebook is perfectly suited for someone as polarizing as Sarah Palin. It’s the ideal way for her to keep in touch, to rev up her base and go around the mainstream media.”
Looks like Sarah’s building viral grassroots supporters much like President Obama did during his campaign run – 2012 is going to be quite interesting.
In an attempt to compete with the social networking juggernaut Facebook, Google will unveil their networking site in September. Google Wave will allow friends to chat and share documents and links in real time.
Initial service will be limited to only 100,000 people who will then be given the chance to gain early access. After a month or so, Google Wave will then become available to the general public.
Heads-up Facebook lovers, the social network was hit up with another phishing attack yesterday. Fraudulent e-mails were sent to a lot of the sites 200 million users asking members to access outside trap sites where their user names and passwords were then robbed.
The e-mail messages requested users to visit external sites with weird domain names like www.151.im and www.123.im. Thereafter, Facebook user were asked to provide there ID and password for the ultimately purpose of spamming others.
So to all you Facebook lovers, be smart, if you come across emails that look like gibberish with domain links, DO NOT click on them, but if you happen to by accident immediately change your password.
