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I just sent a message to President Barack Obama following a White House announcement that it’s teamed up with Facebook to let people virtually communicate with the president.

“Our goal is to meet people where they are,” according to a statement from the White House,” which says it’s also keeping up with the times via the president’s Twitter account and First Lady Michelle Obama’s Snapchat account. “It’s about creating opportunities for people to engage with their government in new and accessible ways, using the same technologies we already rely on in our daily lives.”

The Facebook system is set up via a bot that welcomed me to the chat. Using my journalistic expertise, I asked the president the most crucial question that I could think of—”What’s your favorite coffee shop in D.C.?”

After a couple of other questions, the bot asked me for my mailing address, email, and phone number, and assured me that my question was very important to the leader of the free world by showing me a video. In it, President Obama says that letters “do more to keep me in touch with what’s happening around the country than just about anything else—some of them are funny, some of them are angry, a lot of them are sad of frustrated about their current situation,” he says.

Since he’s taken office, President Obama has read 10 letters every day, according to the video.

I can’t wait to find out if he loves Tryst just as much as I do.

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