Sam Altman Quotes

I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

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

Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

The Internet is where you can find people who are authentic.

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

I check Facebook to see how everybody from high school's doing. I go on Reddit to see what my weirdos are talking about. Then I go on Tumblr to see what my feminists are talking about.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.

I treat Twitter like I'm talking to my friends.

I think the Internet is more layered and complex than just hating it or liking it. I find it to be more purposeful to talk about the way that it's conducive for relationships and making connections.

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

I'm always trying to respond to my Instagram direct messages, even if they're a little weird. I'll have a Q&A on Snapchat and talk to everyone.

The Internet can help you come out of your shell and gives you a chance to make friends who have the same passion as you, it's a real community.

When I'm on Twitter, we just talk to people. I call all my Twitter followers my 'Twitter babies.'

I'm a MySpace person.

Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.

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.

There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.

The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a piece of paper, and that's what makes you someone's favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that's why we're their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we're their favorite.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.