Franklin Foer Quotes

The dawn of the 21st century marked the emergence of the social media age.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

The Internet has enriched my own life immeasurably.

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

Anytime I go on Twitter, there's always the good but the bad as well.

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

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

South America's most populous country, Brazil, is also emerging as one of the region's most social-media savvy.

Twitter's been interesting. I'm kind of a tech geek, but I've never been a Facebook or Twitter guy. Surprisingly, I've really enjoyed Twitter because I get to connect with fans.

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

People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.

I don't tweet.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

Facebook has conquered much of the world.

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.

I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I have two daughters, and they grew up and wanted to get into Instagram, and I didn't know anything about social media. I started it to learn about what they were starting to do and how they communicate with their friends. I opened an account. Very fast, in a few hours, I realized that I actually liked it.

The World Wide Web is more a social creation than a technical one.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

There are lots of things that science will enable us to do that we shouldn’t do.