The First Digital President

During the long and winding road to the White House, there was an interesting side story that played out about which candidate really “got” technology, particularly IT. Obama was portrayed as web-savvy, carrying a Blackberry and regularly using the Internet. In contrast, McCain was seen as out of touch, even personally admitting that he didn’t use a computer or email. And certainly one reason for Senator Obama’s historic victory was his campaign’s unprecedented and innovative use of new technologies, including the Web and social networking. So what do we think here, do you think is it important that we get a president who can use his own computer and has his own email address, and maybe can chat with him on face book or play with him online too!! I don’t know how many of younger people that support Obama did think about these things. I personally think it is not vital but it is important that I know that my candidate knows how to use a computer, especially if that person will become the president of the most digital users and most information users of the world. So here we go, we can call this election “the first digital President” and it is true. Faraway of how much digital media was responsible for electing one of these two candidate, the gesture that Obama showed during his campaigns, shows that being digital and digital lover is one of the factors that may would help him and I think he did well, it helped.