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Today’s generation is the most connected in history because of the various forms of social media and technology. Technology has aids many individuals in pursuing their goals. Social networks keep people connected, whether it may be through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or one of the many others. There are many cases of people making large amounts of money over the Internet. This may occur through advertising funding on popular meme sites or other established informative ones.

President Obama was the first politician to use social media to his advantage. Naheed Nenshi was a candidate for the mayoral race in Calgary, however, he took Obama’s tactics to a whole new level. Nenshi used social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and his own personal blog to illustrate his political agenda to inform and appeal to the public and his potential voters. Nenshi ended up winning the election against more experienced and established candidates because of his fresh political tactics of using technology. The voter turnout was increased by 20% in the Calgary election. I believe that is because younger voters were able to become more aware and informed of the candidates therefore resulting in the higher turnout. In addition the "followers" that he had on Facbook and Twitter give an estimate of the minimum of how many people were going to vote for him.