Chris Benz Quotes

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

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

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

Between Twitter and Facebook and how close you can be with your fans and how close they can be to you these days is, I think, quite miraculous. It's like getting a greeting card every single day.

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

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

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

MySpace is the site I wanted to be on.

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 don't Tweet or Twat. I'm not on Instagram or Facebook.

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

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.

I never really had a lot of friends where I lived. Online, you can have thousands of friends.

Twitter is an amazing thing, because people follow each other and they can make friends.

The primary things that people do on the Facebook is they use it to share with their friends and the people around them and their community, and they use it to keep in touch with people.

I'm kind of a social person and I enjoy corresponding with people and checking out their Facebook pages. And it really doesn't take much time. Ten minutes in the morning, 10 minutes at night and a little bit during the day. It's just something I really enjoy.

I've never really been into doing a lot of social media, but it's a great way for people to talk amongst themselves on a large platform and to have a large conversation with people who also enjoy the same thing.

I'm a MySpace person.