It seems that there are around 1,400 people over the age of 18 in Kilcullen who are regular Facebook users, writes Brian Byrne.That's according to FF candidate in the upcoming local elections in the Naas Area Rob Power, who gave us the information today while taking part in the fundraising 5K Fun Run organised by Grainne McGrath in aid of Halverstown NS and St Anne's School on The Curragh.
We mention it because local Facebook users will probably have noticed the candidate's 'sponsored post' coming through their News Feed relating to the state of Kilcullen Main Street (with a cheekily 'lifted' photograph of your editor's from a post about the same issue on the Kilcullen Diary a while ago).
"Facebook is a great tool," Power told us today. "They were able to tell me how many users there are here, and it's a great way of getting the message across."
It just underlines that this might well be a local election unlike any that has gone before. Social media, including this blog, is coming of electoral age in Ireland. Remember, Barak Obama got elected in no small measure because of his use of the internet. We should watch this space.
By the way, you might not recognise Power from the photo above. He has dropped the moustache and smig which feature on the photo on his blog. "My grandmother insisted," he told us today.
Grandmother knows best. She does.
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