Clay Shirky 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.

The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.

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.

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

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

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

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

I love connected culture.

Yo, it's helped me so much. I've connected with so many people that I've never imagined that I would ever know personally. I'm team Internet, for sure.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

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.

On a good day, I usually tweet 50 to 100 times.

Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.

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.

You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.

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.

Living as we do in the age of Facebook, we shouldn't be surprised that some countries are starting to imagine themselves more as social networks than as a physical place.

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

Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.

The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing.

A lot of things have changed since the days of Flickr. Facebook has concentrated the sociality of the Internet within its blue borders, like a Walmart siphoning off the mom-and-pop shops that formerly comprised the Internet's gathering places. Communication, in the age of mobile dominance, has become, of necessity, shorter and snack-sized.

We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections on Facebook.

Using social media can often be the fastest and easiest way to connect with online influencers because they are already established platforms for connecting with like-minded individuals.

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.