Rob Thomas Quotes

Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

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

People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.

On-line communities would form with people selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.

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.

As for my friends, I do have friends that aren't in the entertainment world at all but do interact on social media. I think that's an innate human thing now, to connect via those channels.

I don't Tweet or Twat. I'm not on Instagram or Facebook.

Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.

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

MySpace was kind of coming to an end when I got onto social media. So my first experience was with Facebook, and there was, like, a penguin game where you feed your penguins, and you have penguin friends.

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.

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 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.

In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.

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.

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes!

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.