Facebook users are going online to vent — er, share — their feelings about the results of yesterday’s elections in the U.S.

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Even the U.S. Postal Service has become a fan of Facebook, asking people on the site to help choose stamp designs for 2012.
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Facebook has clambered aboard the ‘get out the vote’ train and is encouraging its members to vote in today’s US mid-term election.

At the top of the home page, before the news feed, there is a large box titled ‘Today is election day’. The graphic contains a link to help people find their polling place on the US Politics page and an “I voted” button so people can share the fact they voted with their friends. At the bottom it tells you which of your friends have already voted.

If anything is likely to get out the vote, it’s peer pressure and this Facebook app taps into that phenomenon. At 10.55am Pacific time, more than 4.26 million Facebook users had clicked the “I voted” button.

It also provides a neutral, non-partisan alternative for people who dislike the fact that the popular ‘Commit to Vote’ app was funded by the Democrats and contained the Obama symbol in the ‘o’ for ‘vote’.

Political candidates are strong users of Facebook and here at AllFacebook we have already done some analysis on how the election would turn out based on Facebook likes.

I’m guessing that the graphic is geographically targeted to people inside the US, based on IP address. Can any of our international readers confirm whether you see the election graphic as well?

Facebook wants you to vote in tomorrow’s election. Just in the nick time, the social network launched a polling place locator on the U.S. politics page. Take a gander at the application and you see a simple embedding of Google’s poll finder. At least it’s the thought that counts.
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A new “Commit to Vote” application on Facebook is spreading like wildfire.
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When Facebook announced the “Facebook Governance” voting back in February, Mark Zuckerberg hailed it as an “unprecedented” effort to involve users in the development of the terms of service. Almost two months later the voting has finally begun and around 260,000 individuals have voted on which terms to use. Within one week, 30 percent of the site’s population, or 60,000,000 individuals, will have to vote in order for the decision to stick. In other words, the vote is more symbolic than an actual vote.
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