Although Obama recognised social media as a tool that has opened up the diversity of the world to young people, she also warned against allowing it to define our views.

“We have got to get off the phone and start talking to each other face to face,” she said. “We can’t rely solely on this little intermediary to tell us about the world.”

She encouraged the audience to be sceptical about the information we take in, measuring it against our own interactions with people rather than taking it as read.

When asked how an individual can effect positive change in these tumultuous times, she said: “My advice is: get to work. Don’t be complacent and don’t become so cynical that you just turn off. It’s time for us to roll up our sleeves and if we are not happy with the state of things then, in democracies, we have votes. If we don’t vote, somebody will.”

Yeah, I was practically whooping at this point.

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