George W. Bush and/or staff have created a Facebook Page for the former POTUS. However, the third-person updates and marketing materials for former First Lady Laura Bush's book are striking a less-than-personal note.
Still, fans of the page are effusive in their praise for the Bushes and have already built the page's interaction count to an impressively high number. In around 15 hours, a total of two updates have spawned more than 2,900 reactions (that's Likes and comments counted together), and the page has been Liked by more than 57,000 people. This number is soaring even as we type.
Of course, the page has its detractors, as well. But politics aside, it's good to see another prominent political figure embracing social media just enough to get a taste of what people really think and feel -- a very proletariat move for Mr. Bush.
Now we just hope he updates the account himself once in a while; we have the feeling that a personal update from Bush might be more entertaining, more humanizing and better for his overall image online than a string of press release snippets.