George Bush signs up on Facebook

George Bush signs up on Facebook

June 04, 2010

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Texas:

Former US president George W Bush has joined social networking site Facebook, although is clearly not writing his own updates.

George W Bush now has a Facebook account. "Liked" by more than 60000 people within a day of it being set up, the profile contains two pictures, both of which have already attracted several hundred comments, negative and positive.

Although the whole profile has also attracted a huge amount of engagement, Bush has yet to respond to any comments. The former American president's updates are write in the third person, suggesting that they are written by an idea, as is the case with president Obama's use of social media. An account at twitter.com/george_wbush has also been created, mirroring the Facebook site's updates.

Bush spokesman David Sherzer, however, said that the account was unofficial and that the former president had no future plans to "tweet".

Bush's first status update read "Since leaving office, president Bush has remained active. He has visited 20 states and 8 countries; given over 65 speechs; launched the George W Bush presidential centre; finished the first draft of his memoir, Decision points; and partnered with president Clinton to established the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.