Chris Benz Quotes

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both.

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

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.

I think there are pros and cons to social networking, but on a social, personal level, it's just not for me.

In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook. And it's like, 'Let's set something up! I want to meet face-to-face.' And 'Take Me' was about, 'Are you going to take me out? Do I have to be the first person to make the move?'

Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.

I didn't get Facebook until I was maybe a junior or senior in high school.

In the early days, I loved Facebook. I loved being able to keep tabs on hundreds of college classmates all at once, of being able to tag all my dorm mates in the photos we took on our garbage 7 megapixel cameras, of creeping on crushes, of keeping up with every person I met at a party or in a classroom without doing very much work.

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.

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.

If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.

Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?

I think everyone should have social media - all young people, at least.

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 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.

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

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.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr provide an unparalleled ability for people to stay connected in new and unique ways.