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If you’re embarrassed about your mom being on Facebook, at least there’s a silver lining: so is Gavin Newsom. The Chron pointed out that Newsom has a buttload of Facebook “friends,” to the tune of 25,000. Except that the Chron fails to note the difference between friends and supporters, real pages and public pages.
There is a difference.
Below, an abbreviated list of politicians you may actually or care about who are on Facebook as public figures. Like your mom. Hi-o!
1. President Barack Obama – 5.2 million
2. Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska – 491,000
3. Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy – 91,500
4. Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France – 63,300
5. Vladimir Putin, prime minister of Russia – 29,500
6. Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela – 28,000
7. Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco (and possible 2010 gubernatorial candidate) – 25,000
8. Gordon Brown, prime minister of Great Britain – 3,399
9. Jerry Brown, California Attorney General (and possible 2010 gubernatorial candidate) – 700
10. Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe – 630
To note: We actually counted 161 supporters on Mugabe’s public page. Compare that to the litany of groups against him.
Image Source: jdlasica under Creative Commons
Facebook friends in high places [SF Chron]
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Comments:
Feb 11, 2009 at 10:39 pm
CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES
FASCIST HIPPIE!!!!
Feb 10, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Facebook fans are great. Doing something about the millions of people who now are losing their homes or their jobs is profoundly more important. Let’s get real.