Howard Rheingold Quotes

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

The whole point of social media is continuity and continual engagement.

Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

Indeed, the spread of 'virtual' communities on the Internet speaks to a deep hunger to reach out to others.

Yo, it's helped me so much. I've connected with so many people that I've never imagined that I would ever know personally. I'm team Internet, for sure.

I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.

That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.

While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings. Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come.

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I'm not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.

Online is ridiculous. Places like Ohio State bring people here together, and students teach each other.

In business, when you can meet an unmet need that is this primal, even meeting it in a superficial way can create a multi-billion-dollar business - e.g., the chat rooms in AOL when it first came out, or the lounges in Starbucks, or the billion people who are on Facebook - even though these are hardly the most intimate of life experiences.

My kids are really good with social media; that's really an important dynamic in our relationship with our audience, and it's a great way to connect.