BBC on Facebook’s democratic capacity

The BBC have a piece on the democratic application of Facebook’s social capacity.  I suspect that Facebook is more likely to affect legislation rather than ‘effect’ it (as the article’s strapline, perhaps mistakenly, claims) but it’s always good to see mainstream recognition of these broad e-democratic principles.  It’s also another case of a popular internet tool (which are often democratic in nature) being applied to the machinations of politics and civic society — this seems to be a more successful paradigm for e-democracy than attempts to create online tools matched against democratic practices (the Number 10 e-petitions being the most prominent counter-example).