Jonah Peretti Quotes

I find it difficult to believe that Redditors don't understand that anonymity online is merely a facade; indeed, it's probably one of the reasons that revealing the identity of pseudonymous Redditors is looked on as such a huge betrayal.

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

If you're on Twitter, what you're saying is, 'I'm important enough for you to care what I think.'

I think it's pretty clear that the Internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are.

Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

I've never tweeted. 'Funny or Die' started my Twitter account for me, and so I don't even have the password or anything like that. They started it, then they handed it off to other comics.

I like to chat either at my site or, sometimes, through MSN and ICQ. And even if I do reveal my identity, there are a lot of times when no one believes me.

I do not have a Facebook page, and I do not chat on Twitter. I don't have a web site, even if there are people who have opened one in my name, complete with my photo.

People do tend to be extremely skeptical, especially of YouTubers - and rightly so.

Everything I post online is curated.

I recognize that, to someone who doesn't know my history, maybe I seem like this guy who gets dressed up for the Internet.

My Twitter account status used to say 'part-time playboy' on it, but I've taken that down now.

I have people on Twitter that they know better my own platform than myself.

The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.

I think, having grown up with the Internet, things like trolls and the world of having an online life as well as a physical one, it's something I've grown up with.

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.

A social media influencer. I'm not even sure what that means.

Some people bare their entire life on the Internet. There are politicians and actors, who like that. But there are some who don't want to do that.

I don't really care much about being a meme. That's not what I want to be known for, as being a meme from 2016. That's not what I'm here for.

For me, on social media, I try as hard as I can to be myself.

Social media provides a constant platform on which to feature what we deem beautiful, meaningful, and worthy.

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

I try to keep my social media really close to my personality. Then people can see exactly who I am and what I like to say and the message I want to bring.