Nev Schulman Quotes

I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.

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

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

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

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.

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

There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

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.

There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

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.

Twitter's been interesting. I'm kind of a tech geek, but I've never been a Facebook or Twitter guy. Surprisingly, I've really enjoyed Twitter because I get to connect with fans.

I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits.

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.

Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.

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

I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.

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

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.

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

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few seconds apiece at a science-fiction convention.

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.

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

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