Facebook now has 10% of all Internet Traffic, and at least a few experts contend that at its current growth rate it may well be 50% in the next five-years, which would mean it will in fact, become the Internet, and everything else will be something else. Now that is a scary thought for all of us non-Facebook individuals. nevertheless, it is exactly this growth that is causing Facebook’s market valuation to climb and attracting the biggest names in politics to join in with all the Facebooking Groupies.

There was an interesting article on Market Watch Online April 20, 2011 titled “Obama to Get Face Time on Facebook – President to Hold Online Town Hall; Internet Privacy a Growing Issue” by Jeffry Bartash where “the President talked about his ideas to reduce the US federal budget deficit” – but one has to ask isn’t it the president’s ideas on the federal budget which is got us into this problem in the first place? It’s hard to believe that he has the audacity to now ask for Facebook followers to keep him in office. The article also noted:

“The event is another trip out West by the president to raise money for his reelection campaign and drum up political support in the high-tech industry. Silicon Valley was a big source of campaign cash in Obama’s first presidential run. The president also hopes to reconnect with young voters, part of his core group of backers in his victorious 2008 presidential campaign.”

Further, if the president is just going to read off of a Teleprompter, maybe he should just use his online avatar instead? I find it rather fascinating that the President of the United States believes that he deserves to continue to be the president, and that he can come out to California where he’s done a good bit of the damage to the economy with his policies and ask for more money for a political campaign.

Sure, Facebook’s founder and CEO has big bucks to donate for elections and he and Obama can combine synergies for a mass media popularity contest, but things are getting pretty curious if President Obama believes that social networks are going to get him re-elected for a second term after his previous performance as Teleprompter in Chief.

Yes, doing a Town Hall meeting on Facebook is a coup, and will boost the ratings a little, perhaps even splash headlines near and far, but all the voters I know are interested in substance, not talk, and not reality TV shows or how many friends any given candidate has on Facebook. Please consider all this.

Obama on Facebook – Don’t Turn Your Head Sideways, We Want a Good Headshot for the Photo