Grace Helbig Quotes

For most of our users, the vast majority of their MySpace friends are also offline friends. They're just connecting through a different medium when they're on MySpace.

I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.

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

I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

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

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

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

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

Facebook is the first class of social networking. If MySpace is Camden Lock then Facebook is Harvey Nichols.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.

I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.

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.

I love Twitter, you know? I try to read everything I can on Twitter. You get so much nice feedback about stuff, you know you just put out a sentence and everybody laughs or everybody's just sending something back. It's amazing. Same with Facebook, you know? I'm a lot on Facebook and it's just - it's just amazing. And YouTube, of course, as well.

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.

Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?

Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.