Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes

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 build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

The point of Facebook isn't the features, it's the people.

The number of people who have either gotten married or had kids or started dating or just made great friends over Instagram is countless. I think we're the only platform that continues to be successful in bringing people together in real life for these real relationships.

Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships with them. They must become architects of community, consistently demonstrating the values that their customer community expects in exchange for their loyalty and purchases.

It's fantastic to be known as a company that responds quickly to users, shares great resources and friendly banter with them over Twitter, and forges relationships on Pinterest, Facebook, and every other social media site out there.

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.

Sharing is the essence of social media.

My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.

Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.

I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

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

I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.

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

People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

We're extremely excited to see more than 500,000 friends around the globe be added within the first 12 hours of launching Friends on Poptropica. The reaction has been extremely positive from fans, and we're proud to bring a completely safe friends offering to kids on our virtual world.

I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people want to get out around kindred spirits. Cons are a great place to meet people you've been tweeting and FB'ing with, and since you've had an online relationship with them, it's not like meeting for the first time.

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

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

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.

I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.

Almost all the things you can do online can be enhanced by the social structure of MySpace.