Should the government use social networking sites (like Facebook) to communicate information to the public?

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Why or why not?

Also, are government agencies already officially on facebook, twitter, etc?

[starting over]

Yeah, sure. They do right now. It's a good way to reach those audiences that are active on those site.

[Jimmy]

the G-O-P do it the R-N-C do it......right?

[Dave H]

I believe some politicians are on twitter.

[sheephead_28]

I don't want to be Gibb's friend

[Wondering]

Well, I think it should be an option, but I do believe they already watch everything we do anyways. They send us propaganda through several media outlets. Why should Facebook be any different?

I personally subscribe to white house updates. I like to be informed and I sometimes find them rather amusing.

Now if they needed to let us know not to go to certain places for safety reasons or something, I see nothing wrong with alerts. Guess they could be optional too but who would opt out of knowing where NOT to go?

[Captain Awesome]

No.

The government already uses social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to data mine and collect information on all of us.

[massivejudge250]

It's called freedom of speech - if you were actually taught U.S. history in the liberal controlled schools you would know this already..

Go educate yourself.