Trump, Tweets, and Sharing - November 2

Never did I think that social media platforms would have such a big play in something as important as the Presidential election.

Why We Share

In today's day and age, we can't help but take to social media with anything that catches our attention that we might think is

• funny 
• informative
• relevant to a topic that is on the news
• or maybe we just want to show off something  that we think is worth flaunting and bragging about - like mothers who post at least 3 times a week about their children. 

And let's be honest here, we all know that ONE person who shares or posts way too much.

Whether it be Snapchat 

                                                        

Or just shares way too much info with annoying #hashtags and odd topics of interest

How Social Media has Enabled Trump to Make a Surprising Run 

The way in how Trump has used his social media platforms has been quite remarkable in how he has drawn insane amounts of support for "speaking his mind" and that isn't always a good thing 

In cases like this, it scares the heck out of people how this nimrod can potentially lead this nation. He capitalizes on the idea of saying outrageous things that invoke responses from racist White America and being what most of his supporters would label "transparent" because of his lack of a filter. So this gives him some sort of an edge. While his PR team manages to run damage control, he seems to gaining steam as he goes on with posts that are aggressive and just not very well thought out. 

And when  you throw in a post such as this one-

I can only hope that we all pray for a better day.

Sharing 

In a way, Trump has used social media to his advantage while also maintaining his image because of how he is playing to the wants of his not very well informed followers, which let's be honest, is pretty much most of us today! As much as I'd hate to admit it, he's using his social media presence to his advantage and targeting in on what his followers want to hear rather than justifying his "plans" with facts and explanations of process or clear plans of execution.