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The Top 10 Facebook Campaigns

January 12, 2009

Today, thanks to the internet, everyone has a voice. Social networking sites enable the mobilisation of popular opinion as never before. Here are 10 of the best campaigns currently doing the rounds on Facebook.

1. Jeremy Clarkson for PM.

Click here to find out why nearly 450,000 people want the Top Gear presenter and Sunday Times columnist to be Britain’s next Prime Minister. Are they right? Or, as Clarkson himself might say, did Hitler look good in the back of a convertible?

For more on the Clarkson campaign, see the Daily Mail.

2. Not Forwarding Spam Will Not Kill You.

Spam can be invigorating, particularly on those bluesy days when, if it weren’t for oodles of the stuff clogging up your inbox, you might conclude that no one likes you. But the Chain Message telling you either that you’re in for a run of terrible misfortune if you don’t send it on to 25 people, or, that if you do, you’re going to become a billionaire within days, is odious. The fact is that when you forward these things on, nothing happens. Click here to join over 800,000 people who agree.

3. Free Burma.

An ambitious one, this, but from humble beginnings… (Image courtesy of the Wooster Collective.)

4. Stop Global Warming.

Also ambitious, but supported by an impressive two and a half million members.

5. Don’t Let Newspapers Die.

Media pundits predict the demise of both regional and national titles in the US and Britain in 2009. If you want to add your voice to the clamour of those who wish to preserve newspapers as we know and love them, click here (and buy a newspaper).

6. Support Independent Music.

Who would argue with this campaign? No one, surely. And yet donations currently stand at a less than impressive zero.

7. Help Swedish Girls Go Topless.

This campaign seeks to liberate Swedish females so that they can jettison troublesome items such as bikinis or one-piece swimsuits when they’re at the swimming pool.  Despite the absence of any monetary contributions, 18,218 people think it has merit. (There is also a campaign to protect Swedish underwear models – male, as well as female – from unfair competition, but we are not sure this is entirely serious.)

8.  I Love Albania.

With a flag like that, what’s not to love?

9. Promote Tandem Surfing.

With just 51 signatories, this campaign seems to have been neglected.  Click here to support it. (Photo: Dallas Kilponen.)

10. Stop Barack Obama.

This campaign claimed that:

1. Barack Obama is a socialist.
2. Barack Obama is inexperienced.
3. Barack Obama has been endorsed by Hamas.
4. Barack Obama wishes to negotiate with terrorist leaders, such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who pose grave threats to America.
5. Barack Obama has proven to be bitter and racist time and again.

But it was not very successful.