far bigger than polls to "DU" are FB groups and pages, and liberal groups are all but

[themaguffin]

nonexistent. Seriously, look at Arizona. Thousand - thousand "Stand with Arizona".

Crickets stand against it.

Yeah it's they are all stupid groups, but so is ABC's meaningless so non scientific internet polls as well as CNN and all of the others.

It's just very odd to me - when I see something like "stand with arizona" I look for the intelligent progressive version of the page/group and there might be something with 20 people, 100 people, maybe some have a few thousand, but wingnut groups (in many areas of interest) have very large fan bases.

Is that not odd to you?

[blm]

1. 1 MILLION Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070 has over 1.5million members

.

[themaguffin]

5. i had searched a couple of

different things and all i had found were small liberal groups or the support ones. I pasted that one in and it did appear, thanks.

[blm]

8. glad to be of service....

.

[Webster Green]

2. I hate facebook.

I just think it's lame.

[themaguffin]

3. that doesn't matter whether it's lame or not (for this purpose) a lot of things are lame

[Webster Green]

6. Just sayin I'm one liberal that you'll never see there. (n/t)

[tularetom]

4. I have one word for you - "astroturf"

If you looked into the genesis of these groups, my guess is you would find they were all manufactured by lobbying firms or other groups aligned with Wall Street type republicans in their ongoing (and thus far successful) effort to manipulate the dumshit demographic.

[themaguffin]

7. yes, but the are fanned, or joined or whatever. I get the astroturfing, but

the discrepancy is still odd to me.

[Oedipus W. Bush]

9. It actually makes perfect sense.

Many conservative republicans have a strong psychological need to have their beliefs validated. This is because many of them have some amount of cognitive dissonance concerning their beliefs in that they either know or strongly suspect that such beliefs are morally wrong. The reinforcement of their beliefs from the agreement of others resolves, or at least eases, that cognitive dissonance and validates the morally wrong belief.

This phenomenon also explains the commercial success of conservative talk radio and Fox News.

[FSogol]

10. Have to agree. Awesome 1st post, BTW, and welcome to DU. n/t

[Oedipus W. Bush]

11. Thank you. n/t

[Tsiyu]

12. One of the best - if not THE best - summation of the Right Wing Mentality

I've ever read.

A Hearty Welcome to DU, Oedipus Bush! :hi:

[Oedipus W. Bush]

13. Thank you. n/t

[paparush]

14. FaceBook is NOT your friend.

Their privacy practices suck. They've changed their privacy statement repeatedly.

Zuckerberg's own words (while he was at Harvard) commenting on users who'd supplied personal information to his website -
"They trust me. Stupid fucks."

Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline

Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
http://gizmodo.com/5530178/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook

Yet another Facebook privacy risk: emails Facebook sends leak user IP address
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/07/yet-another-privacy.html

A Stunning Infographic on Facebook’s scary privacy evolution
http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

Facebook’s “Posts By Everyone” Feature: Do People Realize They’re
Sharing To The World?
http://selnd.com/96avG4

Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter |
Wired.com
http://bit.ly/aoNxf0

Senators Call Out Facebook On ‘Instant Personalization’, Other Privacy Issues
http://tcrn.ch/907D27

Facebook’s email days: “I’m CEO bith@#$%!”
http://bit.ly/ba5wRY

Facebook’s new features secretly add apps to your profile
http://bit.ly/bHXpH5

The Day Facebook Stole My Page
http://bit.ly/ar4A4As

Facebook is Dying – Social is Not
http://bit.ly/atwbzX

Facebook’s “Evil Interfaces” | Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://bit.ly/9ww6g3

[themaguffin]

15. Facebook has nothing to do with this other than

it being the platform. FB's privacy issues and are documented, probably even on this forum. My point is about groups/pages and the amount of people who support them.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

16. "If 1,000,000 people join, absolutely nothing will happen"

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=170237603163&ref=ts

Facebook Group against Facebook Groups
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200971573

I joined FB last year because of a big high school reunion and for the most part, find the whole thing idiotic. I've joined two groups (no-kill shelters) and offer up very little personal info. That explains why one raging librul hasn't joined; can't speak for the others...