Zuckerberg interviews GW Bush live on Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg gives precious few interviews, but conducts even fewer. Today he conducted a live one however, with former president George W Bush.

It was a very genial affair, held at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto. Bush said it was very gratifying to have 600,000 followers on Facebook and was perfectly blunt in saying the reason he wanted to do the interview was to push his new book 'Decision Points.'

He sprawled across a beige seat and spent much of the talk teasing Zuckerberg about his lack of a college degree. He said he had changed from being a BlackBerry person to an iPad person, but no longer listened to his iPod when out and about as he liked to hear the birds singing.

A visibly nervous Zuckerberg was hardly asking tough questions ("You're no Jay Leno," the ex-president joked) and said that he admired the president for sticking to his guns and not changing unpopular opinions. He also praised Bush for staying out of the criticisms of the current president by his party.

Bush answered a variety of questions on topics ranging from his childhood, dealing with criticism and his legacy, but reserved most of his more controversial segment for discussing the latest WikiLeaks revelations, calling for those responsible to be prosecuted.

As to his legacy Bush said he wasn't concerned, and was content with his life. The book was just a chance to give his side of the story he said.