Benjamin Cohen Quotes

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.

In 1998, there was no social media. People were barely on the Internet. So I had no input from fans at all. Zero.

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.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.

I love the Internet; I'm on it all the time.

I love playing video games. I love listening to music. Just surfing the web. Facebook, Twitter, keeping in touch with people from home.

I like connecting with people through technology.

WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

The Internet links me to friends and family around the world. Skype rocks!

I'm always online, 24/7 Facebooking and tweeting, because that's where my fans are.

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 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.

This is the beauty of social media: it helps you find people and then you can contact them fast and inexpensively.

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.

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

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

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

More and more women are going online.

I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

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

I don't read Twitter.