Jim Parsons Quotes

MySpace is a great way to keep in touch with friends who you don't care enough about to actually have a conversation with, why bother calling to say "how are you," when you can just surf their page and post an mpeg of a guy farting on his cat.

If I want to communicate with fans, usually I go on Twitter.

There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.

Facebook became ubiquitous when I was 16, so I vaguely formed a sense of myself a little bit. I had kind of learned to think a little bit before the stuff was everywhere.

Twitter and those platforms just didn't feel natural to me.

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.

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

There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don't get what's happening.

Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.

The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.

Social media and I have had a very tumultuous relationship.

I am on Facebook, but it's mainly for friends and family, so it's not my real name. But I am on Twitter a lot. I resisted it for so long, but I love it because I get to connect with people I look up to - actors, comedians, and singers.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.

I fought the social media thing kicking and screaming. It can demystify. But it's a different world now, and that is part of what we, as humans, have developed: right, wrong, good, bad, I don't know.

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

No Facebook status is as worrying as a vote and no tweet is as noticeable as an angry cry from a crowd outside a government building.

What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process. Technology has really changed the game in terms of how people participate and what they decide to participate in.

I do think that if you've got a compelling argument to make in this country, going on television, going online, being on social media, you've got a broader ability to be effective at communicating your message if you engage a wide span of platforms rather than just standing on the House floor in the middle of the night, speaking to an empty room.

Online is another way for all of us to reach people.

It's hard to portray your personality in 140 characters. And so, at times, I tend to be very cynical. And I don't think that comes across very well on social media.

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

The ability to become more accessible, to spread a message further, and to share stories at a faster rate are great things to come from social media. As politicians, we have another platform with which we can reach people but also listen to them.

I am not active in sharing my views on social media but I observe a lot.