Yuri Milner Quotes

Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

Facebook is becoming the web. Everything you need is there... it is the universe.

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.

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

When I signed up for Google Plus, my reaction after playing around with it for a little bit was like, 'Huh, I think Facebook should be scared.' In part, because it's a really elegant product. It's very fast.

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

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

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.

From the day Facebook launched in 2004, the profile was the most critical page on the site.

Twitter wasn't a big thing even on 'Inception;' it certainly wasn't on 'The Dark Knight.'

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

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.

A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.

I have a Twitter and have followers from all over the world. It's pretty overwhelming.

While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

The very first plan I wrote for MySpace was that it would be a portal, but a portal wrapped around your user profile.

The idea was that if it was a cool thing to do online, you should be able to do it on MySpace.

I'm always online, 24/7 Facebooking and tweeting, because that's where my fans are.

I've always thought MySpace sounds like a new estate agency in central London run by two men who favour large-lapel suits and goatees.

Facebook it turns out, is like MySpace but it's not scary. There aren't a lot of angry looking people with nose rings and um, issues.