That's not always an advantage. I consider one "political social network" I've seen, the comments section on the political articles the CBC puts up - they're dreadful, nearly as bad as YouTube, because it makes it ridiculously easy to sound off anything that comes into your head (mostly terrible puns on parties and leaders names) and have it be "heard". I doubt anyone who doesn't comment on CBC articles takes the comments at all seriously.
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Indeed, the advantage of online political tools is that they reduce significantly the effort required to contribute.
That's not always an advantage. I consider one "political social network" I've seen, the comments section on the political articles the CBC puts up - they're dreadful, nearly as bad as YouTube, because it makes it ridiculously easy to sound off anything that comes into your head (mostly terrible puns on parties and leaders names) and have it be "heard". I doubt anyone who doesn't comment on CBC articles takes the comments at all seriously.