“It is the digital election,” cried the commentators. And lo, the politicians did dump their placards and rush off to set up Facebook and Twitter accounts.
“This is how we will get them, the youth,” they said to each earnestly at campaign meetings. But they forgot something. They forgot that the internet is more than two social networks.
Instagram, for example, is now one of the world’s most influential social networks, with more than 200 million users around the world.
By: Katie Collins,
