Barack Obama
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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
it's not just the technology itself.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
It's that I'm not plugged in.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
I'm not relating to the cultural, you know, stream in the same way that somebody who's 20 or 25 or even 35 is.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
Listen, I've been wrestling with this for a while.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
People talk about me being the first digital president, and that's true.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
Obviously, the internet existed before me.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
But when I came into office in 2009, the smartphone was not yet widely around.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
And so the smartphone comes out around 2010.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
Facebook, Twitter, a lot of social media is just taking off.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
It seemed optimistic.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
So there's all this sense of this is human connection.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
My campaign wouldn't work.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama
I joke about the fact that I was an early adapter of all this social media, not because, by the way, I was so smart.