Jimmy Wales Quotes

Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.

Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

I was one of the first people to join Facebook in February of 2004, and launched one of the inaugural applications on the platform in May 2007.

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.

From the day Facebook launched in 2004, the profile was the most critical page on the site.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.

Facebook really has made the world a better place.

I wouldn't be without Google, and I love Facebook.

During MySpace's run-up, journalists continually got their facts wrong about MySpace. They wrote story after story about how Facebook was bigger than MySpace when in truth Facebook wasn't even 1/10th the size of MySpace.

Internet has created the ability to connect people instantly.

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.

Twitter is 'Black Twitter'. That is a brand that 'Black Twitter' has given itself. That's where the hashtags happen... where the excitement is.

I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc.

Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.

I do like Twitter. Writing is a solitary pursuit, and it can get lonely. I like to go into Twitter for a short period of time, communicate with clever friends, and then switch it off. That's perfect for me.

I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.

On the Facebook side, I think it's a bit of an evolution, in that that company, which has clearly done amazing things, was, I believe, as an outsider looking in, was founded on a culture that was obsessive about the users. And they built a service that is very valuable for users, and that is to be applauded.

I want to be one of those cool people that's like, "What is Twitter?" and just be totally blind to it.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

I'm becoming more and more of a social media participant, so of course I can always be found everywhere from Twitter to Insta to Facebook.

I think social media is... really cool in the sense that I don't think that a writer like me would've found a readership if maybe Instagram wasn't there.