President Obama has joined Facebook and used his first post to issue a plea to “preserve this beautiful planet of ours for our kids and grandkids.”
The US president joined the estimated billion people currently using Facebook on Monday.
Obama’s first post on his personal profile, where he describes himself as a “Dad, husband, and 44th President of the United States,” shows a video of the US leader walking around the White House gardens.
“I’m kicking it off by inviting you to take a walk with me in my backyard – something I try to do at the end of the day before I head in for dinner,” the post reads.
Exhorting ordinary citizens and world leaders to “do more” to tackle climate change, the president says his profile will be a place for “real conversations about the most important issues” facing the US, as well as “a place where you can hear directly from me”.
But Obama also says he’ll be posting some “just-for-fun stuff, too.”
His timeline shows his birth on 4 August 1961, his marriage to Michelle in 1992 in Chicago and the bare bones of his political career from being sworn in as senator of Illinois, to his first and second inaugurations as president of the United States.
