techPresident - Facebook's Strange Choice to Swap Political Identity for Party Label - Comments

kudos!

Freedomfighter — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:27:24 -0500

My bet the political parties want to buy ads and have continually requested it because they did not like the "conservative" and "liberal" labels. However, I think a strong minority of people do not want to be affiliated with a political party so the net result may be cheaper ads targeting fewer people.

Tagging political identities

Nancy Scola — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:22:26 -0500

I should note that there is a way of freely tagging your political identity and ignoring the options that the drop-down populates for you -- comma separate the tags that work for you and escape out of the menu.

Here here, Nancy

Michael Whitney — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:49:24 -0500

Very well put. All signs do point to this being a marketing decision, with little to no thought of how users actually think of themselves.

Facebook's Strange Choice to Swap Political Identity for Party Label

Nancy Scola — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:59:28 -0500

I'm going to piggyback off Michael Whitney's news of Facebook's decision to swap political identities for party labels, and say: what a strange and misguided choice.