Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the social ties and interactions that occur within the network. The Facebook social graph fuels our mantra 'Try it for free', 'Share it if you like it', 'Buy it if you love it.'

Google+ will never have a user base to rival Facebook's. It just won't. Not even if you include the 'users' who create accounts so that they can use other Google services.

Facebook done a great job of monetizing social.

I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.

I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

I love Twitter; I'm on Twitter quite a lot.

Facebook has never been shy about its ambitions.

Facebook refuses to let Google index or display content from its site. Facebook has partnered with Bing to make its results more social. Is Facebook acting to leverage its dominance in social towards a dominance in search?

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.

Like with MySpace and everything, my dad didn't even know what that was. And then all of a sudden, Twitter came around and he was taking pictures of my new tattoos and posting them and I was like, what's going on? I've never seen this happen before!

Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.

People said, 'MySpace is going to rule and dominate all Internet; all young people will live on MySpace.' Well, along comes Facebook. And, obviously, all the innovation that Apple is doing.

Twitter needs to become more of a platform on the web. If Twitter went away today, people would just turn to Facebook. If Facebook went away, people would start screaming - it's so universal.

At the end of the day, how many ads did it take to convince you to use Facebook or Twitter? It wasn't marketing or advertising that convinced you to use these services. It was their value.

I remember when people called Facebook a fad.

Using social media can often be the fastest and easiest way to connect with online influencers because they are already established platforms for connecting with like-minded individuals.

I don't have a personal Facebook or Twitter account.

With social media, if you have a viral video people can like what you do and it's homegrown and very organic.

When someone posts a Socialcam video, all of their followers get an instant notification.

There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

What's really great about social media is we have tremendous access, and there's a wealth of information about the people that we admire online.

Something like Pinterest would scare the hell out of me. With $5 billion valuation - regardless how sound those numbers are - wouldn't be one that I would start, given what I would consider the risk of failure.

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.