Sam Yagan Quotes

Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.

Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.

Social media is not a fad because it's human.

I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.

We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.

I usually try to stay off my phone and enjoy the world, but when I am on my phone, it's always for social media - to talk to my bros and my fans and my friends.

I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.

Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

As for my friends, I do have friends that aren't in the entertainment world at all but do interact on social media. I think that's an innate human thing now, to connect via those channels.

Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.

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

In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook. And it's like, 'Let's set something up! I want to meet face-to-face.' And 'Take Me' was about, 'Are you going to take me out? Do I have to be the first person to make the move?'

I don't hate dating people, but I'm not on social media or anything.

I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I justified it is that... because I'm on TV, I shouldn't be eliminated from participating in what's going on in the world. But people are always like, 'I can't believe you're on a dating app!'

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

I've had my fair share of tweets, DMs, emails, Facebook Messages and friends trying to set me up with friends.

Everyone talks about how the anonymity of the Internet allows people to behave badly, but I think it's the other way around, that the anonymity removes the 'self' from the people we're talking to online. Other people lose their humanity in our eyes. The system is set up to dehumanize.

In the early days, I loved Facebook. I loved being able to keep tabs on hundreds of college classmates all at once, of being able to tag all my dorm mates in the photos we took on our garbage 7 megapixel cameras, of creeping on crushes, of keeping up with every person I met at a party or in a classroom without doing very much work.

Trolling can be a great way to engage with the world, a way to regain self-esteem and happiness, or, dare I say it, a way of life.

The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different.

People en masse have lost the ability to go out there and meet people in real life.

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