Shooting Yourself In the Foot, 21st Century Style

rueger writes "Right now there's an election happening in British Columbia. A desperate government is flooding Facebook with "Sponsored Post" spam (example) extolling the wonderful things that they plan to do if re-elected. There's one problem though. Every one of these posts is followed by hundreds of extremely negative comments added by people who either dislike the party in question, or Facebook spam in general. Desperate moderators are trying to control the 'discussion,' but seem to have no hope of doing so. What was thought to be a cool marketing tool has turned into a public relations disaster. Is this the worst use of social media in an election?"

Re:Social media

[swanzilla]

Perhaps they should have consulted with a Social Media Expert. Preferably one well versed in SEO and targeted ad compaigns. Those guys are great.

Re:Politics, still they don't get it

[DickBreath]

> Mostly because americans as a whole are retarded and cant balance their own checkbooks.

Balancing your checkbook is an obsolete skill. Move into the 21st century.

Everyone today knows that you spend by using credit cards. When they get maxed out, you just get new ones.

Problem solved. See how easy that was?