Social Media Links for 2016 Candidates
If you are candidate for office or an office holder in the 21st Century, you need to be present on the internet. You need to be present on social media. And you need to be active on these sites. If you are not, it is as if you do not exist. You could have 100 district offices and it would not make up for your lack of presence in the social media world.
What kind of presence should you have as a candidate or office holder? The order or priority is as follows:
1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Website
4. Instagram
Screw Snapchat or LinkedIn or Google+. Those are not necessary or not as trafficked or not intended for political use anyway. A good and most likely successful candidate and/or office holder has all four. Indeed, if you don’t have Instagram but have the others, you are still good since Instagram can really be redundant if you are updating Twitter and Facebook with pictures.
But if all you have is an out of date website designed in the last decade, or in the 1990’s, you have failed. If you don’t have an updated Facebook account for your office, you have failed. And when I am talking about a Facebook account, I am not talking about your own personal one that has pictures of puppies and sunsets. No, you have to set up a separate page for yourself as a candidate or elected official, that allows everyone to “like” or “follow” you without you getting approval of it.
So that all said, here is your list of candidates and their social media links. You will see the statewides, save Karen Weldin Stewart and the lesser known candidates, doing pretty well. When we get to the General Assembly, that’s another story.
Update: Mark Blake now has a website.
Matt Meyer has Instagram and Periscope accounts! Follow at @Meyer4NCC on both today!
Thanks James. Here is the link to Matt Meyer’s Instagram Account: https://www.instagram.com/meyer4ncc/
Yeah. I’m sure I lost tons of votes not engaging in some mindless, self-promotional and intellectually shallow exercise such as having a twitter account would provide for me.
Representative John Kowalko
That’s right, John….you absolutely did.
lol. With tweets like that, it is probably for the best.
CIC
How about you tweet me the names of those voters so I might try to make amends.
John Kowalko, AKA (“John-in-Charge” —of his own rumor-mongering via social media)
John, you ok bud? I’m worried about you. Your posts are getting more and more ‘out there’. Also, is there any group of people you are choosing not to alienate or offend?
Didn’t mean to offend you but I have a big disdain for twitter and tweets and that type of intellectual simplification of info and thoughts. Give me some good challenging conversation or a well written essay or even an extensive blog post or comment but not a dozen or so characters that pretend to stimulate or inform as opposed to merely titillating.
John Kowalko
That’s right, John. No shallow self-promotional stuff from you.
How about some facts bitter-man?
John Kowalko
Facts about what, John?
Nobody would question the humor value of some well-placed sarcasm. But it seems almost pitiful when it is used to mask or distract from one’s obvious disappointment in themselves. Best to not construct some fantasy past and risk the ignominy of being exposed for what we really are, I always say.
John Kowalko
What’s that supposed to mean, John? Be specific, if you’d be so kind. Your post makes no sense to me.
Nor yours to me.
John K.
Thanks as always for your cogent comments, John.
As always, you are most welcome
John K.