Originally Posted by
LandGreen2
IMO Social Media is a huge factor. Why do you think so many of the black polo shirts are on here posting everyday, every thread, and trying so hard to control the message. C2012 vote might have been a lot closer if the members were fluent in social media. As the demographics of the seniority list change, the younger crowd will certainly do most of their information exchanges thru social media and very little thru MEC propaganda.
You're giving so little credit to the guys who won the internet, and yet giving so much attention to the guys who lost it. Is there really any confusion as to who dominates the web? fb, CC, APC are mostly islands of Noformity.
You propose that MEC propaganda and social media are different concepts, but I would say this MEC comes from social media. It was the first to embrace it, and it's planted its' flag all over it.
The only problem, and it is a big problem, is that no matter how many operatives you have, how many paid and unpaid posts you put up, you can't squelch dissent. Not fully.
The last MEC delivered results the pilots didn't want, the new MEC isn't delivering results the pilots want. Blaming dissenters on social media, especially outnumbered dissenters, isn't going to work any better now than it did then.