Facebook has confirmed to our colleagues in the Huffington Post that will enable Europeans to express their political commitment via a button "I vote," in addition to statutes and possibly the polls. In Europe, it is new, but this button has already been used in elections in the United States in 2010 and 2012.
The button will more precisely to a Facebook user to inform his friends that he went to vote. Another feature is also there to help users find their local polling stations.
It is estimated that Facebook has communicated to the Huffington Post, this year, on more than one billion Facebook users, there will be 400 million thus see that someone has voted on the current social network .
Civically, studies have already shown that this "Vote" button has an influence on the number of voters who move to the polls, which might be a good thing, as these European elections tend not interested crowds.
After the United States, Europe and India, this "Vote" button should also land in other parts of the world, always on the sidelines of elections.
For those who are tired of sharing information on social networks, this gesture will certainly be seen as a way for Facebook to gather more information about its users. In addition, previous studies by Facebook itself already sufficiently demonstrated that these data could be used to achieve incredible analysis , as the migration coordinates through the fields "lives" and "native" in the info section Facebook profiles.
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