PM of India on Facebook

New Delhi, Sept 5 (PTI) Prime Minister of India
Manmohan Singh is on social networking site Facebook but is
not net savvy and even does not use a cell phone.

In the course of a discussion on NDTV, Singh's former
media advisor Sanjaya Baru said though the Prime Minister is
not net savvy, there is a Facebook site which is regularly
updated, so he is on Facebook.

But he had no idea as to who was updating the site.

Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor,
who has been extensively using the site Twitter, said the
Prime Minister had once asked him what the site was about and
how it worked.

"I told him at that point - look which politician is
going to resist an audience, in those days 24,000 or
something," he said.

"He (Prime Minister) laughed and said of course you
should not and today I have an audience of 84,000 and tomorrow
it might be more....no politician would wisely turn down an
audience of so many that he could reach," Tharoor said.

The minister said his remarks on the site are a
combination of personal and official comments. "But in none of
my 1000 tweets have I said anything which I could not have
said publicly or that in anyway embarrasses or compromises the
government". PTI