Ron Conway Quotes

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

Facebook is a platform inside a platform.

The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.

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

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.

I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.

I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.

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.

I love Twitter. As an entertainer, it's a way to connect with the fans, and I think that's important.

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

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

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

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.'

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

I don't read Twitter.

As far as I'm concerned, Twitter has wiped out Facebook. I'm done with Facebook.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

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.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

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

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.