Comment Not that influential (Score 2) 165
Back in 2011 we had a vote in the UK as to whether we would switch our voting system from "first past the post" to "alternative vote".
Although my Facebook feed was absolutely riddled with people proclaiming their support for AV and no-one for FPTP (and a quick straw poll of my work colleagues suggested the same for them) that wasn't reflected in the results which were that 68 per cent voted No (to AV) and 32 per cent voted Yes.
Facebook may have influenced some people to go out and vote, but it certainly didn't seem to reflect how the country voted as a whole.