Shaun King Quotes

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

I had been one of the earliest social media adopters, driven by a mix of curiosity and enthusiasm for the way in which it levels borders and connects people who couldn't really have connected otherwise.

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.

My label, my team and I are always looking to get involved with positive things.

I would never want to take TOMS or myself into an issues debate. That's not what we're about. We're about helping people.

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

Social networking technology didn't really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action.

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

A lot of people know about the power of the WWE brand. We're in 145 countries in 30 different languages. We reach about 650 million households worldwide on a global weekly basis. But what they don't know about WWE is that we use all of that power to give back to the community through events like Hurricane Sandy Relief.

I like connecting with people through technology.

We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.

My feeling is, if you're going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It's better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect—to help people work together—and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input.

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.

I'm always just happy to see when models are working hard, doing well, and really, above all else, doing good things. I love when they work for charities or inspire education. Look at Karlie Kloss promoting education - that's wonderful.

Social entrepreneurs are people who have amazing passion to do good.

There is good business doing good.