--- title: Joe Biden's First Selfie Is With Barack Obama description: "Found a friend to join me," writes U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, after featuring a prominent guest star in his new Instagram account canonical: https://time.com/66042/joe-biden-barack-obama-selfie/ author: Per Liljas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-17T04:01:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:52.704Z og:title: Joe Biden's First Selfie Is With Barack Obama og:description: "Found a friend to join me," writes U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, after featuring a prominent guest star in his new Instagram account og:url: https://time.com/66042/joe-biden-barack-obama-selfie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joe Biden's First Selfie Is With Barack Obama twitter:description: "Found a friend to join me," writes U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, after featuring a prominent guest star in his new Instagram account twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Joe Biden's First Selfie Is Just Awesome by [Per Liljas](https://time.com/author/per-liljas/) ## Per Liljas Apr 17, 2014 4:01 AM UTC by [Per Liljas](https://time.com/author/per-liljas/) ## Per Liljas Apr 17, 2014 4:01 AM UTC Eleven hours after [opening](http://time.com/65309/joe-biden-joins-instagram/) an Instagram account, Vice President Joe Biden uploaded his first selfie. And what a selfie. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/66042/joe-biden-barack-obama-selfie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/66042/joe-biden-barack-obama-selfie/"},"headline":"Joe Biden's First Selfie Is Just Awesome","datePublished":"2014-04-17T04:01:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:52.704Z","description":"Eleven hours after opening the Instagram account @vp, Vice President Joe Biden uploaded a snap featuring President Barack Obama with the caption \"Found a friend to join me.\" He really couldn’t have featured a more prominent guest star","url":"https://time.com/66042/joe-biden-barack-obama-selfie/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","Joe Biden","Technology","U.S.","Instagram","selfie"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Per Liljas","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/per-liljas/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/66042/joe-biden-barack-obama-selfie/","name":"Joe Biden's First Selfie Is Just Awesome"}}]}] ```