Remember those halcyon days of, like, 2008, when you could experience Election Day by turning on the television and watching Wolf Blitzer tell you the results from various states’ exit polling as their polls closed? A bunch of you will still experience the 2012 election that way, but another bunch of you will end up in the fetal position, furiously scratching the backs of your necks, because Twitter and Facebook will be unusable from about noon on Tuesday through 8pm on Wednesday.
Just think it through: Reporters think they should be tweeting every single bit of information because, hey, they’re “reporting”. And all your friends on Facebook will be sharing their opinions of how Barack Obama is going to turn the United States into a Mad Max-ian dystopia thanks to his particular brand of socialist Islamic atheism, or how Mitt Romney lost because he’s terrible at laughing (because he’s a robot, see. “Ha ha ha…”).
All that’s to say: You’re not going to get much insight from journalists on Twitter tomorrow, because they’ll mainly be repeating what the only relevant exit polling firm is telling everyone, while your friends on Facebook will be in the process of proving that the gen-pop is terrible at opinionating and doesn’t realize it.
See ‘ya on Thursday!
(Image cc-licensed: "Mark’s Twitter Friends" by ‘Pong)
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