Meg Whitman Quotes

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

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.

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.

One of the key components of Miitomo is that you are connecting with your friends. That is a significant measure to ensure that the user experience is consistently pleasant.

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

I wish we could get a national buddy network going. It would be a great thing for the American people.

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

I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world.

I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.

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.

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

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

L.A. can be a tough city, very lonely. A lot of people move here to pursue a dream, and that's understandable. But sometimes it's hard to find genuine friends.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.

I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.

D-Nice has shown us what is possible and how music can bring people together and virtual parties.

I started using YouTube when I really wanted to reach out to the world, and I found a group of people who had the same interests as me.

Gaming brings people together.

We help kids and fans of all ages find their social scenes. Find their place. Find their demeanor.

Find community.

For me, One Direction is the only fandom I've been in, and I made so many friends.

For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out.