Focus & Simplify - Life as an Entrepreneur using social media

With social networks being a part of our everyday lives, it’s going to be interesting to see whether politicians and government will take an active role with the online world in policy making.

We have read and heard that in countries where politics is a matter of life and death, social networks have played a significant role in investigations. If you take countries like China and India for example social networks are closely monitored as many hate groups can be created within a network, people misusing the simple tools provided, and Giants like Google are taken to court quiet often.

In the west however social engagement and politics operate differently. People do not have a lot of time to commit to doing something and sticking by a cause. If politicians do go the track to using social networks to create policies, its important to note that followers and friends in the virtual world can be magically created but this does not happen in the real world. We need to take into account all the spam that goes around in the online world.

Having said this its important to note that social networks can be useful for receiving opinions about a certain policy that’s been worked on, gauge an idea of how people feel, receive feedback of new ways we could improve our social engagement offline, etc. So in summary social networks will play a role in politics to an extent, it already has begun but how we use the power of social networks to improve or lives is a question that we need to seriously think about.
Your views on this topic would be great.