Harper Reed Quotes

Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile.

If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.

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

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me.

A lot of things have changed since the days of Flickr. Facebook has concentrated the sociality of the Internet within its blue borders, like a Walmart siphoning off the mom-and-pop shops that formerly comprised the Internet's gathering places. Communication, in the age of mobile dominance, has become, of necessity, shorter and snack-sized.

I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.

I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.

I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.

Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

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

I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

I really do love social media. I've always been crazy about - even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer.

One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.

I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension.

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.

Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

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