{"id":227622,"date":"2010-01-25T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5456363"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:06:00","slug":"barack-obama-uses-the-internet-like-a-normal-adult-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227622","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama “Uses the Internet Like a Normal Adult” [The Internet]"},"content":{"rendered":"

We know he’s a BlackBerry fanboy<\/a>, an international iPod evangelist<\/a>, and a prolific YouTube vlogger<\/a>, and a general nerd<\/a>, but now we have a new label for our POTUS: Internet addict<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2010, to “use the internet<\/a> like a normal adult” is to give in to a terrible, emotionless symbiosis from which you can never withdraw, so what’s said here—that the president reads blogs, that he spends a lot of his day online, that he’s the first president to have an internet connection at his desk—is less interesting that what’s left unsaid: Does he laugh at memes? Does he comment? Does he troll<\/em>?<\/p>\n

And as the WaPo<\/em>‘s anonymous source<\/a> so obviously wanted the world to ask, or else he\/she would have worded things differently: Porntube or xHamster? [Washington Post<\/a> via Ed Bott<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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We know he’s a BlackBerry fanboy, an international iPod evangelist, and a prolific YouTube vlogger, and a general nerd, but now we have a new label for our POTUS: Internet addict. In 2010, to “use the internet like a normal adult” is to give in to a terrible, emotionless symbiosis from which you can never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}