The UK Election – is social media a good thing here?

As the election race heat s up, we are able to begin to see the way the party leaders are using social media or being employ ed by it like never before.  This must be the most analysed election in history because of the large number of people monitoring e ach breath of all involv ed.  
 
 But does this help us settle on a winner?  
 
 Well up unti l yesterday you may have thought it was just a harmles s stream of info that could do nothing to sway folks either way, but when Brown burs ted out the now famous  ‘bigot’ slur, things got all heavy pretty quickly.  
 
 It was repeated across the net in record time and s oon m any millions of people knew precise ly what had gone on.  The way storie s is now distributed means we don’t have to hang about for the daily newspaper- we are able to get it instantl y, much to the chagrin of our hapless leaders.  
 
  Naturally, this may all be used for exact ly the opposite because good news can also spread quickly – it ‘s just not as tempting so you have got to try harder.  
 
 David Cameron has tri ed and some say succeeded ( many say failed ) by mak ing his series of  ‘Webcamerons’.  Awful(maybe he should have got some seo training first?).  But at least he ‘s’s trying and any way, do we ‘d like our leaders to engage with us in this way?  
 
  there are numerous that say they should stick to what they ‘re doing best and leave social media well alone instead of fail and embarrass themselves, but there ‘s a growing swell of opinion that if they want to engage with the populous, they should embrace leading edge technology and all that it brings.  
 
 My p rivate opinion is th at th ey should indeed do this, but just when they learn when to talk and when to close up.