Dinesh Soni’s Blog

With L K Advani’s massive ad campaign in social media and many politicians joining the Social Media, the need has arised to draw demarcation line between the two. I won’t be writing too much here. Just couple of basic differences.

1) Politics is about your name. The party always gives image of the person. How many of us know name of one more leader from MNS? Or how many of us know of another member of AIADMK? BSP is always Mayawati for us and RJD is Lalu.
In social media, its about your work. If you meet another guy from social media and introduce you by name, first question will be “Where do you write?” or “Oh.. you are the one who writes at xyz.com”. There are many people who are known more by their blog name and people don’t even know their real names.

2) Politics is too much about false respect. Even an 80 year old man have to bow in front of a 35 year old kid just cause he is a minister. In social media, you don’t care about age of another person. A 13 year old kid will call 50 year old man by his first name. And btw, social media does have 13 year old kids unlike politics.