Kevin Systrom Quotes

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

Twitter goes straight over my head, but I like the idea of posting pictures because they can say so much.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.

I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.

People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.

Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

I realize Twitter can be good, providing a video game of creativity for your brain.

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.

I started using YouTube when I really wanted to reach out to the world, and I found a group of people who had the same interests as me.

I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.

Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements.

Yo, it's helped me so much. I've connected with so many people that I've never imagined that I would ever know personally. I'm team Internet, for sure.

For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out.

My overall plan for Instagram is to continue to create a tool that will inspire people to use their visual voice.

I hated school, so when I got to this place with other people who could draw and were interested in wearing makeup, it was amazing.

Consumers around the world are excited to share common experiences.

Memes just show that people are engaged about something. A meme is just a little inside joke for a group of people that care about a certain thing.

In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.

When you give people ability to stay connected with all the people they care about, and you make it so they can express new things about themselves or in communication with other people who they care about, then you just open up new possibilities. You make it so people can stay connected in ways that they couldn't before.

The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social media. At the same time, if no one ever read my work, if I was writing solely for myself, I bet it would be lonely and a lot less fun.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook...