Evan Spiegel Quotes

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.

I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

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.

It used to be that people had a way of dealing with the world that was basically, 'I have a feeling, I want to make a call.' Now I would capture a way of dealing with the world, which is: 'I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text.'

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of our lives and the foundation of the Internet. I think everything will be redefined because people are using their real identities on the Internet.

For most of our users, the vast majority of their MySpace friends are also offline friends. They're just connecting through a different medium when they're on MySpace.

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.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

I do think technology really has changed the way that we communicate with each other and texting can be the way to communicate and to kind of get up the nerve to say things that maybe you wouldn't say in real life, but that also comes with a price.

Online is another way for all of us to reach people.

I'm not hard to find. I'm on Snapchat and Instagram every day.

I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.

The sole forms of social interaction I was aware of as a kid involved a jungle gym and a sticker book. It was only in high school that ICQ - a prehistoric form of instant messaging - was first incorporated into my cultural vocabulary.

With the Internet, fans feel like they know you and I love that kind of connection.

I'm not a crazy Twitter guy to where I'm tweeting out stuff every day, and rarely even once a week do I tweet. But I mean, occasionally, I read some stuff.

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

Snapchat is a really intimate medium.

Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.

Social media is so huge.

It's always weird when people come out to see you because everything's mostly online now.