Fred Wilson Quotes

Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.

If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.

Normally, my digital peregrinations take me to destinations like Facebook, YouTube, and boingboing.net.

We spend a lot of time looking at the things we like: Amazon, Google, Facebook.

Facebook is the first class of social networking. If MySpace is Camden Lock then Facebook is Harvey Nichols.

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.

Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

When I signed up for Google Plus, my reaction after playing around with it for a little bit was like, 'Huh, I think Facebook should be scared.' In part, because it's a really elegant product. It's very fast.

In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.

In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.

I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes!

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr provide an unparalleled ability for people to stay connected in new and unique ways.

MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.

I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether Facebook wants to try to be less proprietary, be more central to the operation of defining and stewarding identity online.

I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace.

I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn't know MySpace.

Facebook was just John the Baptist. Twitter is the real deal.

I check out my MySpace. I'll go on sites to see what's funny on YouTube.

I was an early adopter of everything from Myspace to Twitter, and I think they're just fads, like CB radio.

I'm a MySpace person.