I've never really been much of a fan of Facebook. Personally, I just never got the draw. Oh, I had a page for a while, but it didn't take long for it to lose its appeal. But I did recently stumble across something in the area of social media, that did catch my eye. Being someone of a more conservative nature, I had read about how some things can get censored on Facebook, another reason, I guess, I never bothered with it. But now a group of conservatives are launching a social network called "
The Tea Party Community." And the site, which doesn’t even officially go online until Saturday, has already attracted over 50,000 members. And I'm proud to say, I am now one of them.
The site’s co-founder, Tea Party activist Ken Crow,
told Fox News that The Tea Party Community will be the "new home for conservatives and the Tea Party movement in America." He said, "Most of us are subjected to censorship on Facebook…I’ve been suspended there as have many of my friends. You also absorb a lot of abuse from liberals." Crow reportedly teamed up with Tim Selaty Sr. and Tim Selaty Jr. to put the social networking site together in November, which dubs itself as a "safe haven for the conservative movement where we can share ideas and thoughts and express ourselves without fear of retribution."
Crow said he, along with many other conservatives, feel as if Facebook intentionally targets conservatives through its policies. "Most of us are subjected to censorship on Facebook," Crow explained. "I’ve been suspended there as have many of my friends. You also absorb a lot of abuse from liberals." He added, "As many as 100 Facebook users contacted Fox News with complaints that the social networking site had either removed conservative content or blocked them for posting conservative content," Fox News reports. So now there would seem to be an alternative, a place where conservatives can congregate and speak their minds.
It was Fox News that outlined a few additional details about
The Tea Party Community: It’s no surprise The Tea Party Community has a very similar look and feel to Facebook. "That was intentional," Crow said. "We didn’t want there to be a learning curve for the new members." You can "friend" people and "like" posts. You can also join pages and meet up with like-minded conservatives in your home state. And also like Facebook – The Tea Party Community is free of charge. Crow said he’s not surprised by the popularity of The Tea Party Community. He expects it to become not just a social networking site – but a political networking site.
So if you're so inclined stop by, or even sign up yourself, please do so. I think if we all work together we can make it even more of a success than Facebook. And we'll be able to communicate with many more folks who are more apt to see things through the same conservative lens. Also we won't have to worry about saying something that might get us censored by those who see things differently, politically and philosophically speaking. It'll be a place that can be used to spread the word when necessary to those who possess and similar mindset without fear of having the plug pulled, so to speak. A place where we won’t have to worry about big brother snooping.
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