Another reason my friends aren’t tripping over one another to hand over their ballot slips is because we’ve been raised in the age of social media. Twitter, Facebook, and change.org have galvanised us to campaign on issues close to our hearts; the future of marriage equality, feminism, and freedom of speech lie at the tips of our fingers. The inter-party bickering our parents have come to accept as the norm doesn’t seem as inevitable to us – we know, from the hashtags that flood our screens, that there are other ways to get things done.