Barack Obama gets to feed his BlackBerry addiction from the White House. He's in line for a new spy-proof smartphone with special encryption.
So, will the 44th president be LOL and OMGing - and will it all go into his permanent record per the Presidential Records Act of 1978?
Sharon Fawcett at the National Archives said: "If the president is emailing his wife about what time he'll be home for dinner, or checking on when the girls' play is … those are not constitutional and statutory business of the president."
Do think she's right? And "personal" is a pretty fuzzy line. Do emails to Arne Duncan setting up basketball dates count? Obama says he favours transparency in government. Should Sasha and Malia be allowed to have Facebook pages? Tell us where you think private life ends and public life begins - and how does technology change things.
