Hilary Mason Quotes

It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected.

If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone's personality.

I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of people's lives, exploring how a person thinks and feels.

The people at Netflix are extremely intelligent about the way they monitor activity on their platform.

I'm very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale of human social behavior.

I Iike listening to people talking. I'm really interested in people's lives and what makes us work, what makes us weak, at times, and things that can make us stronger.

Humans will always babble. If someone wants to tweet that they can't decide whether to wear blue socks or brown socks, then fair enough. But when sharing becomes automated, I get the heebie-jeebies.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

Social media can be so addictive.

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities.

Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.

I don't really think before I tweet.

I love being on Twitter and interacting with different people. Also, I very dangerously love to go shopping online!

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.

One of the key components of Miitomo is that you are connecting with your friends. That is a significant measure to ensure that the user experience is consistently pleasant.

We're all getting in trouble on Twitter - just get off and use your Instagram.

I watch everything online... I consume so much media through Instagram and Facebook, too.

Human interaction is not a simple thing.

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