McCain Loses Election and 300 Facebook Friends

If losing a presidential election was not enough, John McCain's Facebook friend count is also sinking like the stock market. This dramatic abandonment could be for a number of reasons:

1. People don't like to be associated with losers
2. People don't like to be friends with old creepy guys on Facebook
3. McCain couldn't figure out social media so he just paid Facebook to pad his stats until the
election was over
4. People really just don't like him

For those of you who still don't see the value of social media check these Facebook stats out. Let's use McCain as an example of when keepin it real goes wrong....

• Preliminary data shows an increase of more than 20% in activity on the site on election day vs. last Tuesday (measured by page views).
• More than 5.44 million people clicked the “I voted” button on Facebook to tell their friends they voted.
• McCain: 625k supporters on Facebook
• Obama: 2.5 million supporters - the most popular page on Facebook (no. 2 is Michael Phelps with 1.6 million)
• Since 9/5 McCain has added more than 330k fans and Obama has added more than 750k fans.
• On Facebook, Obama added more than 18k supporters Sunday night, more than 25k Monday night, and added more than 40k supporters on election day. That is the largest single day of growth we have on record.
• McCain lost about 300 Facebook supporters on election day.
• Total election-related virtual gifts given: more than 2 million
• Shortly after midnight on Nov 4, about 1 million people used the Causes application to simultaneously set their Facebook status with a unified message to remind their friends to vote. This kicked off one of the largest online rallies in history, with currently over 1.5 million people participating and growing quickly. So far, 4.5 million status messages have been posted. It can be seen at www.causes.com/election.
• In October, we partnered with Rock the Vote to register more than 50k.
• In the days leading up to Nov. 4, we were averaging about 200k wall posts per day related to the election. On election day, wall posts mentioning Obama surged to more than 1.1 million and those mentioning McCain went to 280k. There were more than 2 million total wall posts related to the election on election day.
• We also launched an election day event to remind and motivate people to vote. In just two weeks more than 2.4 million people have RSVP’d that they’re coming

Save the World One MySpace View at a Time

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Love and Heartbreak on Facebook

Relationships can start and stop in very interesting ways. A couple years back, Sex and the City had an episode about being dumbed via Post-it note that I've always thought was the worst possible way to breakup. What could possibly be worse than leaving a Post-it? Facebook!!! Yes, Facebook has become the official source for updating one's relationship status. Thanks to the social power of the News Feed, everyone in your network is notified when your relationship status has changed. Unfortunately, you might be the last person in your social network to find out that your boyfriend or girlfriend has changed their status to single.

In my opinion, the Facebook breakup takes the Post-it breakup to the next level of embarrassment. It's the same concept, accept the Facebook status is being posted for all of your friends, family and acquaintances to see, not just you.

If you know of, or can think of a worse way to find out that your significant other has a sudden change of heart, please send me your comments. I'd love to hear worse breakup stories and scenarios.

For more public opinion on the topic you should check out this article from ABC News.