Why Do So Many Liberals "Like" Mitt Romney On Facebook? 376
pigrabbitbear writes "Mother Jones reports that, 'In recent weeks, a host of liberal types have complained that their Facebook accounts have erroneously "liked" Romney's page, and some are floating the theory that the Romney campaign has deployed a virus or used other nefarious means to inflate the candidate's online stature. This conspiratorial notion has spawned a Facebook community forum, and its own page: "Hacked By Mitt Romney" (cute url: facebook.com/MittYouDidntBuildThat)' So what's going on? Is the Romney campaign engaging in some tech wizardry to hijack Americans' Facebook pages? Seems unlikely, but Romney did somehow manage to acquire millions of fake Twitter followers. But it looks like the Romney campaign isn't behind this one — Facebook and its mobile app is."
Re:Issues (Score:2, Interesting)
I don't see what all the brew-haha is about on that one. I mean, he actually hit that one smack on the head.
I guess the truth hurts....
Re:Simple mix up (Score:4, Interesting)
...which makes this comment from one of TFAs twice as funny:
“I’ve deleted 5 people,” one read. “This is the only place that I have any intolerance. If you like that dude, even just on the Internet, we are enemies. No apologies.”
(Basically, if you facebook-like Romney, that guy considers you an enemy.)
Re:Because Romney is a liberal. (Score:4, Interesting)
If you'd asked me about Romney a month ago, I'd have said he seemed like an okay guy. Boring, but okay. I'd have voted for him if I thought he had a better economic plan than Obama.
But the Libya press conference changed my mind. He was openly gloating. Maybe the Obama administration did screw up in Libya. But Romney saw this first as an opportunity to score points on Obama, and second as a tragedy, if he even thought it was a tragedy at all. He went through the motions of expressing regret, but that asshole smirk was the only genuine, believable part of his entire performance. What kind of person does that, I thought? Then it hit me: the kind of person who picks on a gay kid, holds him down, hacks off his hair, then when confronted years later, lies about it. An asshole.
That Romney went back behind the curtain again for a bit. I wondered if maybe I'd been too harsh on him. Then came the 47% clip. Some people said he was just playing to the crowd. But again what I found striking was the way Romney spoke. He was dynamic, engaged, alive. He didn't sound like the pandering guy on the campaign trail. There was conviction.
People ask about the real Mitt Romney... watch those speeches, and you'll see him, you'll see the real Mitt Romney slip out from behind the carefully constructed mask.
Re:Simple mix up (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I won't join Facebook until... (Score:5, Interesting)
I like this.
But I don't have any mod points.
So I'm just going to leave this oddly meta post about liking what you just said.
Re:Simple mix up (Score:5, Interesting)
One other thing is, to participate on discussions on a page, you must "like" it.
So some of those liberals that "like" him may have "liked" him for the purposes of trolling the page.
This.
If you've ever been to either Obama's or Romney's page, all the comments are pretty much chock-full of hatin' from the other side.
I worked for Microsoft Game Studios for a while and our FB page was pretty much the same way. It was kinda nice, because all of the trolls would hang out on FB and forums... where no one would read them except for other haters. Anyone who was actually playing our game would then be pretty much free to play online relatively unmolested by trolls in-game.
Same thing with youtube... if it wasn't for youtube trolls, we'd probably have many more here :P
Re:Simple mix up (Score:4, Interesting)
Gary Johnson has NEVER appeared as a "like" option in FB, even though I am a Libertarian. Those are Sponsored ads and my guess is that Gary Johnson is much better suited to the G+ crowd. The interesting thing is Mitt is also on G+ as is Obama, but I see more +Gary Johnson posts in the WHAT'S HOT section. Or is it just that I tune out Mitt Obama and Barack Romney crap?