Coy Shaffstall is the social media manager for Today's POV

Think about the last conversation you had today. When you expressed your point of view (POV) did you wonder if the person agreed with you? Did you wonder how many other people might agree with you? Today's POV can answer these questions.

Today's POV takes narrowly focused polls, questions, and surveys to a whole new level. We have created a social network for promoting a daily question and tally of challenging, edgy, controversial, and polarizing questions. Social media gives lift to the world's individual voices. Today's POV gives lift to the world's individual and collective opinions. 

According to Nielsen Company research, more than two-thirds of the world's Internet population visit social networking sites at least once a month, and nearly 10% of all time spent online is devoted to social networking.

MySpace at its heyday boasted more than 400 million followers. Facebook touts 200 million. With daily government announcements and news agencies volleying numbers in the trillions, a measly 400 million may seem like a drop in the bucket, but when you think about these numbers actually being a count of you, your friends, your friends' friends, and lots of people waiting to become friends, the numbers make social media a fascinating topic. It also makes it the perfect platform to enable your vote to be counted.

Today's POV is not motivated by any personal, political, or religious agenda - we are resoundingly agnostic. We exercise your and our right to free speech. We have built a forum where you may express your views without concern for judgment or retribution of any kind. 

Our questions run the full gamut - all age groups, all topics, all over the world. They are in a simple yes-or-no format and the tallied results are delivered at midnight mountain daylight time (Mountain Daylight Time [MDT] = GMT-6) to over 100 social media sites, to your SmartPhone such as iPhone(r) or BlackBerry(r), your email address, your cell phone as SMS, and as an RSS feed.

Do you think 18-year-old males should be charged as sex offenders for consensual sex with 17-year-old females?

Today's POV is a place to learn about the world's views and a place for the world to learn about your views. You can participate on three levels: become a follower, register to vote, or enroll as a reviewer. 

Get started by using our web site, your favorite social network, or your supported device to follow the question and voter responses throughout the day. Watch as the numbers update immediately to reflect votes as they are submitted. 

When you're ready, register to vote and contribute your opinion. Each question runs for a 24-hour period, and you can add your vote to the results at any point during the question's posting. 

Should women be allowed to have a late-term abortion?

When you register to vote, you'll be asked to provide your email address to which we will send a confirmation link. When you activate this link in the email, we can ensure that others do not vote on your behalf. For proper sorting of responses, you must also provide your basic demographics (age group, gender, race, and martial status). A couple of clicks and you're ready to vote - it really is that simple.

When an individual is convicted of defrauding others, should the convicted person's family assets be seized?

Though we require a bit of demographics to become a registered Today's POV voter, you could alternatively choose to remain completely anonymous by submitting a secret ballot. These push the limits in the form of really tough questions about serious topics: criminal behavior, religious zealotry, political corruption, and personal choices. The tallies for secret ballots focus on the number of persons in agreement with the statement rather than the demographics of the daily POV question.

Should you be permitted to share songs for which you have paid and downloaded?

If you're feeling ambitious, jump into the question queue, where you'll find a successive and random display of all future questions in groups of ten. Run through these all at once or over several visits and answer as many or as few as you like. We'll track your responses and include them in the accumulative results for each question's regularly scheduled 24-hour period.

If being a voter has simply whet your appetite, join as a reviewer and we'll send you sponsored links to web sites or online products or services to which you may offer your opinion.

As a reviewer, be among the first to see the featured product and tell us what you think by answering five or fewer questions. These are sponsored links from companies who value your opinion and need feedback on a site, product, or service. 

Whether you join as a follower, voter, or reviewer, you will find that Today's POV is current, relevant, and informative. 


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