Jeffrey Bewkes Quotes

I'm a MySpace person.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr provide an unparalleled ability for people to stay connected in new and unique ways.

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

The thing I love about Myspace is it's a safe place where I can talk to fans every day.

Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.

If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.

I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.

Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us. Because what happens on a social network is you interact with the people that you have chosen to interact with.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I'm joking or not.

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.