Social media is an information channel; it's like radio or TV... In Cisco, we made a lot of money on public protocol. I think the social media model replicates that protocol.
‐‐ Sandra Lerner
Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood
Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.
‐‐ Amy Jo Martin
Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
‐‐ Chris O'Dowd
Social media is here to stay, and the social phenomenon that is bringing this about is consumers' willingness to share more about themselves, share more about what they're doing... people are even willing to disclose where they're at. And this phenomenon is going to create huge commerce opportunities on the web.
‐‐ Ron Conway
Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
‐‐ Hannibal Buress
Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.
‐‐ Steve Kazee
Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff
Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.
‐‐ Mark Cuban
Social media is key to promoting the editorial posts on my website.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad
Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
‐‐ Jessica Valenti
Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.
‐‐ Kurt Eichenwald
Social media is not the same in 2013 as it was in 2003 - or even 2008 or 2011. You didn't carry around AOL chat in your pocket or look at it when you were in class.
‐‐ Nancy Jo Sales
Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.
‐‐ Narendra Modi
Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
‐‐ Obiageli Ezekwesili
Social media is so influential now.
‐‐ Rita Ora
Social media is social. We're looking to touch one heart at a time. With one great story at a time.
‐‐ Shawn Amos
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.
‐‐ Roxane Gay
Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes
Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes
Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.
‐‐ Amy Jo Martin
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis
Social media listening tools make it easy to track brand references and mentions, and these functions can still be handled ably by a small, dedicated team.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes
Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes
Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.
‐‐ Jeffrey Gitomer
Social media provides an avenue to build relationships with media outlets and have an ongoing relationship with reporters.
‐‐ Amy Jo Martin
Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had.
‐‐ Jennifer Armintrout
Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
‐‐ Gary Vaynerchuk
Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov
Social media teams tend to be decentralized - a motley mix of in-house experts, off-site consultants and international partners. The result: Confusion, rogue tweets, and off-message posts are almost inevitable. The worst gaffes live on in social media infamy.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes
Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.
‐‐ Anthony Carmona
Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.
‐‐ Robert Harris
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.
‐‐ Ellen Key
'Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it ageless.
‐‐ Michael De Luca
Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.
‐‐ Bill Cosby
Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.
‐‐ Nicola Formichetti
Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon
Social networking technology didn't really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action.
‐‐ Ben Rattray
Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr provide an unparalleled ability for people to stay connected in new and unique ways.
‐‐ Michael Bennet
Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.
‐‐ Nicholas A. Christakis
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
‐‐ Reid Hoffman
Social networks particularly will tend to converge and consolidate over time, especially because they're inherently governed by network effects. So the bigger ones will just get bigger, their value will multiply exponentially, and the smaller ones will become less and less relevant.
‐‐ Clara Shih
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade
Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
‐‐ Jack Antonoff
Social peace requires reciprocity.
‐‐ Ralph Peters
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
‐‐ Karl Marx
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
‐‐ George Herbert Mead