Election Day Has Fun on Social Networks

You've had your fill of negative campaign ads, pointers to videos from special interest groups, and an unstoppable sea of reminders that you should vote. (By the way, did you know it was Election Day?)

In the 2008 elections, social networks and the Web became key tools in raising money and getting the message out. But there are all sorts of social networks, so it seemed only fitting to take a look at how a number of popular ones might fit into your voting plans.

• 4Chan: You vote and every single electronic voting machine in the nation is mercilessly mocked until they all shut down simultaneously.
• Blogster: Everyone is a pundit on their own talk radio show.
• Classmates: you get spam messages telling you to reconnect with every candidates you voted for in the past. The more you spend on a membership, the more often you can vote.
• deviantART: The place for campaign posters.
• Digg: It used to be that voting with Digg was like election day in Chicago, including calling in favors and stuffing ballot boxes. Now it's like an election in Bigfork, Montana.
• Facebook: Instead of voting for a candidate, you vote for the picture of someone's drooling St. Bernard as cutest dog -- and then find that all of your personal information has been transmitted to the companies that send the robocalls.
• Flickr: Post your candidate's picture for comment and criticism by people who read about voting once.
• Foursquare: Campaign to become mayor of your local ice cream parlor.
• Google: You get a robocall from CEO Eric Schmidt telling you who you planned to vote for. However, the candidate lives in another state, but you promote the person anyway through Buzz, except that no one pays attention to anything you write.
• LinkedIn: The perfect place on Election Day, if only you could legally buy and sell votes.
• MySpace: None of the candidates are particularly versed in public policy, but all are remarkably skilled on electric guitar and have MP3s you can download.
• Plaxo: Message after message arrives in your email, telling you that a candidate wants to stay in better touch and asking you to provide all manner of personal details.
• StumbleUpon: You hear about all sorts of great candidates you'll never be able to vote for because they live somewhere else.
• Twitter: You learn that all political candidates have died unexpectedly and retweet the message to a 433 of your closest friends. A new shortening service will provide abbreviations for candidates with overly long names.
• Yahoo: After an hour going through one menu after another, you finally discover the election page. Every time you vote for someone, the person quits and takes a job at Facebook.

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