The Power and Limitations of Internet Political Campaign

Firstly political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group. Political campaigns often refer to electoral campaigns, the most high profile political campaigns are focused on candidates for head of state or head of government, often a President or Prime Minister.

Political campaign contains the ideas that the candidate wants to share with the voters. The message often consists of several issues within the country. The points summarize the main ideas of the campaign and are repeated frequently in order to create a lasting impression with the voters.  Barack Obama ran on a consistent, simple message of "change" throughout his campaign and his messages are crafted carefully, that helps to assure the candidate a victory at the polls. Also increasing the number of followers in his social platforms such as twitter.

Why is it good to have political campaign using internet as the platform?

The main factor is to reach out to the masses easily and within a short period of time, from hour to hour,day to day almost anytime and regularly connecting with the people around. This enables trust to develop and stronger bonds with people and the respective politician.

The most prominent politician is definitely Obama.Our current prime minister Lee Hsien Loong  also has facebook and twitter accounts to get more connected with the people around especially to the citizens in Singapore to be able to feedback to him more easily.

However Internet has limited users, though many people do use the internet not everyone are active in the net itself. As much as the internet has power to advertise and reach out to people,and have the power to advocate but also gives the power to any individual to humiliate anyone on the internet too. Anything can be said and spread around really fast creating chaos or becoming a spark within the internet society. 

Thus, there are always pros and cons to everything. Proper governance for the use of internet helps to protect and restrict contents in the internet protects the uses in the internet while strengthening the bond between a politician and the people around to make rooms for improvements fast and possible with the increasing number of internet users. 

Augmented Reality

Augmented reality! is something that would be incorporated into our daily lives making more information accessible in real time ... we can always get an experience for ourselves and create our own augmented reality like what my group members and i presented in class using the "aurasma" app available for free download in both i-phones and android phones.

Above is a video that shows us what augmented reality will be like in real-life=) so hope you all have an idea of what augmented reality will be like. We can eventually be one of the creator of an application in future having the augmented reality function to enhance the application too!

INTERNET SECURITY

After analyzing a couple of sites advising about online security i have learnt that these are the top rated points that we should be aware to Protect Ourselves online and to sustain Internet Security :

1. Create smart and strong passwords.(numbers and alphabets)

2. Guard Your Personal Information

Never respond to requests for personal or account information online (or over the phone).

3. Don’t Overshare

Don’t divulge your birth date, mother’s maiden name, pet’s name or any other identifying information on social media websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.

4. Use email wisely.(Be careful about what information you submit via email. Never send your credit-card information, Social Security number, or other private information via email.)

5. Be smart when using instant messaging (IM) programs. (use nicknames and never except strangers)

6. Shop safely. (check to see if a tiny locked padlock symbol appears at the bottom right of the checkout screen, or that there is a statement on the checkout screen stating that the pages are secure with a security technology vendor. )

7. Subscribe to McAfee computer security service. (McAfee products offer the latest and best combination of software, providing consumers and their home computers with unparalleled, comprehensive protection from cyberspace threats like viruses, spam,malware and identity theft. Always stay up to date for security services)



SO PLEASE REMEMBER THESE AT ALL TIMES WHEN USING THE INTERNET NOTHING IS SAFE OR PRIVATE FOR US USERS, ITS STILL OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT OURSELVES!!!

bunnies

My best friend Q loves rabbits, she mates and sales them to others who wants a rabbit of their own. So uploaded this short video to show how cute her rabbits are.