Daniel Lyons Quotes

There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.

People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video... and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that's not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented blogs. It's really about personal expression, and that's just gotten bigger and broader.

When you open up 'Instagram,' you need to know that you're seeing the real Tony Hawk, the real Taylor Swift, the real Burberry.

People only see you in blogs, and they think they know everything about your life.

All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

Instagram is my 401k.

Now every person edits the story they tell about themselves, carefully ensuring what the world looks at - whether it's over Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

It's hard to portray your personality in 140 characters. And so, at times, I tend to be very cynical. And I don't think that comes across very well on social media.

Through technology and social media, we're able to create an identity online that shows people the face that we want them to see and rather than who they really are.

For blogs today, it's really about content creation and partnering with a brand. You can get the news in so many forms and so many places. A tweet now is enough to tell you about a story. People don't have to click to go to your site.

I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.

Most of our fans don't get to interact with us or know our personalities except through social media.

I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.

Don't judge me by what someone posts on my page on Facebook.

I wouldn't follow me on Instagram.

There's more of me on Twitter than there is in real life.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.

I've used the Internet since I was in high school - it was my tool for self-promotion.

I've been blogging since the 80s. Okay maybe not that long. But starting around 2004, I launched and abandoned many blogs, and would continue to do so over the next decade.

The way people express themselves online, that's also how they express themselves in the real world.

Being in the public eye, with the Internet - it's scary. You can put out too much, and it becomes a part of the pie chart of who you are. Things stick. And they never go away.