Peter Levine Quotes

Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.

Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.

I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

I saw a report on the news: 'Peter Dinklage tweeted... ' What? You know, I don't need any of that stuff. I got an email account; that's all I need.

Somewhere along the way, when we were building social media products, we forgot the reason we like to communicate with our friends is because it's fun.

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

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

I started hearing Snapchat in the same context as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. That got me curious.

I have two daughters, and they grew up and wanted to get into Instagram, and I didn't know anything about social media. I started it to learn about what they were starting to do and how they communicate with their friends. I opened an account. Very fast, in a few hours, I realized that I actually liked it.

WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.

I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me.

The Internet links me to friends and family around the world. Skype rocks!

I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.

You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn't possible before.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.