Social Media Quotes

The shortcomings of social media would not bother me awfully if I did not suspect that Facebook friendship and Twitter chatter are displacing real rapport and real conversation, just as Gutenberg’s device displaced remembering. The things we may be unlearning, tweet by tweet — complexity, acuity, patience, wisdom, intimacy — are things that matter.

In an actual discussion, the marshaling of information is cumulative, complication is acknowledged, sometimes persuasion occurs. In a Twitter discussion, opinions and our tolerance for others’ opinions are stunted.

My thought was 'this is my Twitter. I can do whatever I want.' But certain companies I work with contacted me about what I was saying.

Social media is over. Still up there. Going down. You heard it here first.

Considering my fifteen years of IRC and Twitter, I certainly have written more words than Shakespeare ever did in his entire life.

That's not the way we do things around here. Please don't underestimate how powerful this sentence is. When you say this to a colleague, a new hire, a student or a freelancer, you've established a powerful norm, one that they will be hesitant to challenge.

I guess what it probably turns out is, other people didn't care as much as we did.

The craziest thing to me in all this, is that I remember having these conversations with my friends when I was in college. We would just sort of take it as an assumption that the world would get to the state where it is now. But, we figured, we're just college kids. Why were we the people who were most qualified to do that? I mean, that's crazy!

Most applications are going to become social, and most industries are going to be rethought in a way where social design and doing things with your friends is at the core of how these things work.If the last five years was the ramping up, I think that the next five years are going to be characterized by widespread acknowledgment by other industries that this is the way that stuff should be and will be better.

Most applications are going to become social, and most industries are going to be rethought in a way where social design and doing things with your friends is at the core of how these things work.If the last five years was the ramping up, I think that the next five years are going to be characterized by widespread acknowledgment by other industries that this is the way that stuff should be and will be better.

Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

The thing that I really care about is making the world more open and connected. What that stands for is something that I have believed in for a really long time. Open means having access to more information, right? More transparency, being able to share things and have a voice in the world. And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

I think it's totally fair to say we are a very good business," she says. "Not 'we will be,' but 'we are.'

It's like you go to a restaurant and bump into a friend...A lot of the reason why that seems so magical is because it doesn't happen often. But I think the reality is that those circumstances aren't actually rare. It's that we probably miss like 99% of it....When you have this kind of context of what's going on, it's just going to make people's lives richer...maybe now you'll start seeing a lot more of them.

We're trying to map out what exists in the world. In the world, there's trust. I think as humans we fundamentally parse the world through the people and relationships we have around us. So at its core, what we're trying to do is map out all of those trust relationships, which you can call, colloquially, most of the time, friendships.

We're trying to map out what exists in the world. In the world, there's trust. I think as humans we fundamentally parse the world through the people and relationships we have around us. So at its core, what we're trying to do is map out all of those trust relationships, which you can call, colloquially, most of the time, friendships.

Be sure to pick the right medium for the job:
- Audio is intimate.
- Video is expressive and illustrative.
- Text is faster to read than audio or video is to consume, easier to transfer, and simpler to produce.

Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way.

Ideas that spread, win.