John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I'm a MySpace person.

I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace.

A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.

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.

Facebook it turns out, is like MySpace but it's not scary. There aren't a lot of angry looking people with nose rings and um, issues.

Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

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

That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.

Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us. Because what happens on a social network is you interact with the people that you have chosen to interact with.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

I have always had stuff on the Internet. Way back in the Myspace days, I had a lot of friends on Myspace. And it is just all about, like, networking - contacting people and showing people, like, your mind.

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.

I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether Facebook wants to try to be less proprietary, be more central to the operation of defining and stewarding identity online.

I've never been on Facebook. My page is run for me. It is the same with Twitter.

Facebook is the first class of social networking. If MySpace is Camden Lock then Facebook is Harvey Nichols.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.

Facebook is my life.

But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.

The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively - I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook - it sounds trivial, but people matter.