Politics as they say is a game of throne and power and some even say it's a dirty game.
Personally I feel like politics is the games for the adults, politics is the talks for the big people that can carry that matter in their head, in other words, I used to feel like politics is an unnecessary stress that can cause high blood pressure.
Like you should see my father arguing with his power and strength talking about politics, I got very angry realizing that whenever he's talking with an adult, he always get to involve or input politics in the conversation.
For example, my father and a stranger or a friend could be randomly talking about just anything, maybe their children or education or family members or relatives, and just any how, I repeat, just anyhow you'll realize that their conversations has one way or the other turned or changed or switched to something related or relating to politics, and I'll be like Ahhahnn how na?
Now talking about the involvement of social media in politics. Like I said, I used to take politics as just a game for the big guys like adult, but the election that was conducted in my country Nigeria was one of a kind, it became the engaging political activities in history jut because of the involvement of social media.
There was almost an out break in the social media cause everyone was involved. It was the first time I would see youths intentionally going out to print their voters Id card, talking about how much they wanted a better governance, how much we wanted the best for ourselves, how much they preferred a particular political party over another political party.
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Social media brought out a lot of people to vote, social media brought out a lot of youth to be interested in politics, because in the past elections, I've never seen such engagements by the youths of the great nation.
On this note, it is now very easy for politicians to leverage on social media as an opportunity or advantage to their campaigns, as much as they can keep on going from one state or community to another, it's easier and faster to spread awareness and information about what they want to manifest.
Social media has helped or can help politicians have more followers, have more influence, have more power, have more money, have more engagements and attention they seek, have more exposed lifestyle, have more sponsors and of course more enemies.
Speaking of enemies, as we all know, there's no good without a bad, have you heard of the phrase, the internet does not forget, well, yeah, there a lot of people who are interested in the downfall of politicians, Ty we are ready to keep all their scandals and corruption till they have enough and then on social media you see them post things that you didn't know that some politicians has done, are doing or will do.
Sole haters will just be intentional in wanting the downfall of who they don't like.
In all, social media to and extent has done more good than bad in contributing to the political lifestyle of politics, it has shown u who we can believe and who can't, why we should and why we shouldn't, why we do and why we shouldn't.
To do anything different,
is to make sure that there's no wrong information or misinterpretation of words from politicians and also that politicians should not go around proclaiming deceitful manifestos, because it can be used against them in the future.
Thank you for your time.
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