Tom Anderson Quotes

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

The thing I love about Myspace is it's a safe place where I can talk to fans every day.

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.

On 'Chatroom,' everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well.

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

I don't go on social media with a mercenary intent to promote. That's just wrong. I go to learn, to listen, to have fun, to find people who love what I love and who introduce me to new things. That's where the joy is: in the interactions.

Basically, Twitter can be your best friend or your worst enemy, and I try to make it my best friend and take it for what it is.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.

I have a Twitter and have followers from all over the world. It's pretty overwhelming.

I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people want to get out around kindred spirits. Cons are a great place to meet people you've been tweeting and FB'ing with, and since you've had an online relationship with them, it's not like meeting for the first time.

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.

There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.

Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

Where are all our friends?

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.

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

I treat Twitter like I'm talking to my friends.

I started using YouTube when I really wanted to reach out to the world, and I found a group of people who had the same interests as me.

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.