Tom Anderson Quotes

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.

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

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

Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

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

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.

What's really great about social media is we have tremendous access, and there's a wealth of information about the people that we admire online.

Social media has changed everything. Since we're talking about what we do when we wake up and posting it, we're talking about where we go on Sundays. It's not just about where you work anymore. It's about your life.

I was really excited by the idea that people were sharing information now and discovering information in a totally new way on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook, yet that experience was pretty clunk and just lots of bit.ly links.

As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.

I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch.

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.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

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

Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.

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